News Series: "At the Table." The First Meal and the First Choice

A new teaching series from Living Temple Christian Church.In this opening message of our new series, Jess explores the first meals of Scripture in Genesis 1–3, where food, trust, and identity are deeply intertwined. Before sin enters the story, God places humanity in a garden of abundance — a place of nourishment, relationship, and provision.This teaching looks at how the issue in Eden was never really about fruit, but about trust. Will humanity rely on God to provide what is needed, or take control and define good and evil for themselves?By examining food, choice, and relationship in the opening chapters of Genesis, Jess invites us to reflect on how scarcity thinking, anxiety, and mistrust still shape our lives today — and how the gospel restores us to God’s table.In this message:Why the Bible begins with food, not commandmentsGenesis as a story of provision, dignity, and trustThe garden as a place of abundance, not restrictionWhy the forbidden tree represents choice, not deprivationHow sin begins with questioning God’s goodnessTrust vs control as the heart of the human conditionHow Jesus restores fellowship, provision, and relationshipKey Scriptures:Genesis 1–3Genesis 2:8–9, 15–17