GENESIS 1:1 // Beauty. God creates all things beautiful to display His love and essence. God creates man to share His love and respond to His love. There is nothing other than goodness in God’s creation.

ROMANS 3:23 // Brokenness. Man chooses self over God. Sin enters and distorts man’s relationship with God, self, others, and the world. Brokenness enters into all things and affects everything in God’s original beautiful creation.

EPHESIANS 2:8-9 // Man attempts to repair relationship with God by his own works, and in his own ways. But sinful man cannot repair or reconcile self to a holy God. Man is hopeless without God’s gracious intervention.

TITUS 2:11 // God loves all He created, so He Himself enters His creation in the flesh, being born as a baby, like those He created, so He can substitute Himself in our place. Man cannot get to God, so God came to man.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 // Since God loves the world, He sent His own begotten Son, God in the flesh, to stand in as a substitute for the sin of man. Jesus suffered because we suffer. And Jesus died because we die.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:14 // Life is more powerful than death. The uncreated Creator of all life resurrected from death by His own power, to overcome the power of death for all who will receive His resurrection on their behalf.

ROMANS 10:9-10 // Jesus repairs man’s broken relationship with God, and gives His Spirit to live within His people. True belief in Jesus begins a new life empowered by His Spirit, eternal life that begins now and lasts forever.

1 THESSALONIANS 4:14-18 // One day Jesus will return to complete our salvation, and restore all things to their full original beautiful state before sin entered the world. We grow in following Jesus, looking ahead with hope to His return.