6. How You Got Here and Why It Matters

Introduction
PREMISE: Disconnected islands. A part of a story, plan.

How God Starts it all, where do I fit?
God -> angels -> world -> Adam's Family -> Abraham -> Israel/12 Tribes -> Judah -> David -> Jesus -> the church -> me

Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

If you asked 2nd Century Christians

Before the Beginning

Sometime around the Beginning: Angels

In the beginning, Genesis 1:1

Adam's Family

Abraham - Isaac - Jacob

Israel/12 Tribes

Judah

David

Jesus

Apostles & The Church

YOU

Children of God
Children of Men
Children of Abraham
You came from some where