Order, Words, & Voices

Order, Words, & Voices

05.26.24, Faces – Adam and Eve, Genesis 2

Order

Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close

Songs For the Beauty of the Earth Lynn/Team

God of Wonders

Participatory Reading and Prayer Mitch

Songs Breathe on Me, Breath of God Lynn/Team

Christ Be Magnified

Passage/Intro Genesis 2 Renee

Message Adam and Eve Rick

Music What a Beautiful Name it is Lynn/Team

Community/Benediction Rick

Closing Peace Rick

Closing Music Who You Say I Am Lynn/Team

Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close

Isaiah – have video card in camera and ‘recording’ on for entire service. Thanks!

Music (Slides) Lynn/Team

For The Beauty Of The Earth (Dix)

Verse 1

For the beauty of the earth

For the glory of the skies

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies

Chorus

Lord of all to Thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise

Verse 2

For the beauty of each hour

Of the day and of the night

Hill and vale and tree and flower

Sun and moon and stars of light

Chorus

Lord of all to Thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise

Verse 6

For Thyself best gift divine

To the world so freely given

For that great great love of Thine

Peace on earth and joy in heaven

Chorus

Lord of all to Thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise

God Of Wonders

Verse 1

Lord of all creation

Of water earth and sky

The heavens are Your tabernacle

Glory to the Lord on high

Chorus 1

God of wonders beyond our galaxy

You are holy holy

The universe declares Your majesty

You are holy holy

Lord of heaven and earth

Verse 2

Early in the morning

I will celebrate the light

When I stumble in the darkness

I will call Your name by night

Chorus 1

God of wonders beyond our galaxy

You are holy holy

The universe declares Your majesty

You are holy holy

Lord of heaven and earth

Bridge

Hallelujah (to the Lord of heaven and earth)

You are holy

Chorus 2

God of wonders beyond our galaxy

You are holy holy

Precious Lord reveal Your heart to me

Father hold me hold me

The universe declares Your majesty

You are holy holy holy holy

Ending

Hallelujah (to the Lord of heaven and earth)

Response (Slides) Mitch

Leader: In the beginning, in our beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty. God said, ‘Let there be light’ and God separated the light from the darkness. Day and night.

Response: God said, ‘It is Good.’

Leader: God separated the waters and gathered the ground. Evening, morning, sky, land, and seas.

Response: God said, ‘It is Good.’

Leader: God created vegetation, seed bearing plants,and trees that bore fruit. God set lights in the sky, one for the daytime and one for the nighttime.

Response: God said, ‘It is Good.’

Leader: God filled the waters with living creatures, the sky with winged creatures, and filled the land with creatures. God told them to be fruitful and multiply.

Response: God said, “It is Good.”

Leader: So God created humankind in his own image, in God’s image God created them, male and female God created them.

Response: God saw all that he had made, and said, “It is all very Good.”

Join me in the prayer of Jesus,

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us.

And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Music (Slides) Lynn/Team

Breathe on Me

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

Love and life that makes me free

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

Fan the flame within me.

Teach my heart, heal my soul,

Speak the mind that in Christ we know.

Take me to your Sanctuary

Breathe on me.

Speak to me, Voice of God,

Soft and still inside my heart.

Speak to me, Word of God,

Comfort, heal, restore with love.

Teach my heart, heal my soul,

Speak the mind that in Christ we know.

Take me to your Sanctuary

Breathe on me.

Teach my heart, heal my soul,

Speak the mind that in Christ we know.

Take me to your Sanctuary

Breathe on me.

Christ Be Magnified

Verse 1

Were creation suddenly articulate

With a thousand tongues to lift one cry

Then from north to south and east to west

We’d hear Christ be magnified

Verse 2

Were the whole earth echoing His eminence

His name would burst from sea and sky

From rivers to the mountain tops

We’d hear Christ be magnified

Chorus

O Christ be magnified

Let His praise arise

Christ be magnified in me

O Christ be magnified

From the altar of my life

Christ be magnified in me

Verse 3

When ev’ry creature finds its inmost melody

And ev’ry human heart its native cry

O then in one enraptured hymn of praise

We’ll sing Christ be magnified

Chorus

O Christ be magnified

Let His praise arise

Christ be magnified in me

O Christ be magnified

From the altar of my life

Christ be magnified in me

Bridge

I won’t bow to idols

I’ll stand strong and worship You

And if it puts me in the fire

I’ll rejoice ’cause You’re there too

I won’t be formed by feelings

I hold fast to what is true

If the cross brings transformation

You can hang me there with You

‘Cause death is just the doorway

Into resurrection life

If I join You in Your suff’rings

Then I’ll join You when You rise

And when You return in glory

With all the angels and the saints

My heart will still be singing

My song will be the same

Chorus (x 2)

O Christ be magnified

Let His praise arise

Christ be magnified in me

O Christ be magnified

From the altar of my life

Christ be magnified in me

Passage (Slides) Renee

Before the Lord God gave rain to the earth, there was no one to till the ground. So God formed man from the dust of the ground, breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and the man became a living being.

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there God put the man.

In the garden, the Lord God made every tree that is pleasant to the sight and nutritious to eat. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches to water all the lands.

The Lord God took the man and put him in Eden to till the land and to care for the garden.

The Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat of every tree of the garden except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for if you eat of that tree you shall die.”

Then the Lord God then said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” So, from the earth God formed every animal and bird and brought them before the man, but none of them were suitable partners.

Then, the Lord God put the man into a deep sleep and took one of the man’s ribs. With that rib God made a woman.

When the man woke, he said, “At last, this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

Genesis 2:5b-23

Message Rick (Slides)

FSBC 38 years ago. Staff meetings, more purpose than bullet points

Bullet points for Creation story, missed revelations of limited literal view

[Slide – Screen Share on until near end of message] Dr. Frank Stragg, SBC Theologian and General Baptist said, “To literalize is to trivialize.”

[Slide] Dr. Charles Kiker, pastor and educator, said, “I take the stories in Genesis 1-3 too seriously to trivialize them by literalizing them.”

[Slide] Problem with literalization/bullet points approach

One dimensional
Blinds us to what is not a bullet point. Miss full character
See God Creator as magician rather than hands on engineer
We miss the opportunity to have enriched perspective of God & Humanity.
We miss Adam, Eve, the Creation, and God

Chapter 2 point by point

[Slide] No rain because no one to till plants and care for creation
Formed man, God breathed breath into man to give life.
God planted a garden, placed plants and trees in the garden that would supply nutrition needed to sustain human life.
God placed Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in garden.
River in garden flowed out of Eden which watered all of the land
God verified that man was placed in garden for the purpose of tilling and caring for the creation.

[Slide] God cautioned the man about eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for, if man eat – man would surely die.
God recognized the danger of man’s isolation so brought all animals before the man – realized none solved the isolation. God created woman out of the same elements that man had been created
Woman was created to be equal partner and helper.
Man recognized that woman was a blessing in all ways.

Three focuses for untold consideration

[Slide] No One to Till the land/No One to Care for Creation
- Rain/Vegetation hindered in absence of human caretaker.
- God created man who would be the caretaker of creation.
- The essential element of Work to make Life purposeful, calling

[Slide] It is Not Good That Man is left alone
- Man would not be healthy (mentally) living in isolation
- God created woman who would be coequal, also caretaker
- God created man and woman to be caretaker of each other.
- Equal Co laborer (doctors, laborers, scientists, teachers, etc.)

[Slide] Warning to not eat from Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil, Choice
- Lily – ‘Warning directed at the very core of humanity’, 7 yr old
- [Slide] What if we began to see God as being hands on beginning with creation, recognizing that man as social creature, figuring out that none of the creatures would be a suitable helper and equal partner…
- [Slide] —Jack Miles’ God: an Autobiography revolves around the idea that the Old Testament God tells a tale of an Authority convinced he comprehends humankind because he created it, who slowly comes to terms with idea that only humanity can tell its story
- Jesus was faced with this constantly, in how he lived, how he responded to others, when he was confronted by the Syrophenocian woman as well as the betrayal of Judas, etc…
- We struggle so much with tangible that we forget intangible.
- [Slide] Choice is huge, Man created in image of God (choice), Christ dies for humanity even while humanity in state of disobedience

[Stop Screen Share] – need each other and God in God’s creation

Vulnerability of Kyle/Encouragement seen last Sunday ‘going to be fine.’

Music (Slide) Lynn/Team

What A Beautiful Name

Verse 1

You were the Word at the beginning

One with God the Lord Most High

Your hidden glory in creation

Now revealed in You our Christ

Chorus 1

What a beautiful Name it is

The Name of Jesus Christ my King

What a beautiful Name it is

Nothing compares to this

What a beautiful Name it is

The Name of Jesus

Verse 2

You didn’t want heaven without us

So Jesus You brought heaven down

My sin was great Your love was greater

What could separate us now

Chorus 2

What a wonderful Name it is

The Name of Jesus Christ my King

What a wonderful Name it is

Nothing compares to this

What a wonderful Name it is

The Name of Jesus

What a wonderful Name it is

The Name of Jesus

Bridge

Death could not hold You

The veil tore before You

You silence the boast of sin and grave

The heavens are roaring

The praise of Your glory

For You are raised to life again

Bridge

You have no rival

You have no equal

Now and forever God You reign

Yours is the kingdom

Yours is the glory

Yours is the Name above all names

Chorus 3