Genesis 1:

Introduction

The most difficult part of any endeavor is figuring out how to get started. Ironically enough, when I was writing this sermon, I knew exactly what I wanted to say, where I wanted to go, and how I wanted the flow to work. The part I struggled with the most was writing the last couple of sentences you just heard me say. That little blinking cursor was taunting me with writers block just trying to figure out how to start this sermon. Something about starting just starting a new project can be so daunting. How many of you here have waited until the last possible moment to finish a homework assignment or work project, because the thought of actually getting started was just too overwhelming? Good! I’m glad to see I’m not alone as the procrastinator here. Beginnings are challenging, and new beginnings are even more difficulty. Our passage for today is the ultimate new beginning. It’s the very start to a story we are still living out today. What we will be looking at is Genesis chapter 1.

Exposition and Interpretation

Genesis chapter 1 is unlike anything else that came before it. When we look at Genesis, we see a beautiful, unfolding narrative of God’s creation of everything around us.

Now, I want to share with you some pastors secrets, the inside baseball to reading your Bible. To properly interpret any book or passage from the Bible, first we have to know what we’re looking at. When we look at the Bible, we look at it like modern people. We see a book. It sits on our shelves, it looks like any other book. Hopefully it isn’t gathering too much dust somewhere in your home. But the Bible isn’t actually a book. It’s a library. All of the different books that make up the Bible are unique in their own right and they belong to different genres. We all know what genres are. Romance, comedy, biography, fiction, etc. Before we can properly interpret the Bible, we need to know what genre we’re reading. If we don’t we can get completely lost. It would be like walking into the gardening section of a library, picking up a book, and then deciding that it was the most boring and confusing romance novel ever. All it did was talk about weeds and shrubs, I couldn’t figure out who was in love with who at all!

Theological Insight

Personal Application

Conclusion