God's Great Story
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us." (Genesis 1:26)
Creation
with God
The ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you. (Genesis 3:17-18)
Fall
with the earth
The restoration of harmony through Jesus’ death and resurrection
Redemption
Reference?
Colossians 1:19-20
When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. (Genesis 3:8
Fall
with God
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. (Genesis 2:21-22)
Creation
with others
The heavens and the earth and everything in them
Creation
But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God's righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)
Redemption
with the earth
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Redemption
with self
The entrance of sin into the creation and the disobedience of Adam and Eve
The Fall
Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame. (Genesis 2:25)
Fall
with self
And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. (Colossian 3:15)
redemption
with others
The man replied, "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it." (Genesis 3:12)
with others
Explain what relationships of creation God has already reconciled through Jesus’ death on the cross, and what relationship still has to take place
through Jesus’ death on the cross, people are able to be reconciled to God now. Through Christ they can become new creations and be reconciled to themselves. As their character matures and they grow in love, they are reconciled to others. Our reconciliation with the earth will occur when God makes the new heavens and the new earth.
Bible Verse?
Colossians 1:19-20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.