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Imperfect Steps,
Faithful Partner

God's invitation to partnership

Learning Partnership

Guided my hands

Patient investment

God's Choice

God could have made perfect people

— but He didn't!

God's Invitation

Partnership, Not Passivity

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.
Genesis 2:15

Walking with God

Enoch walked with God...
Genesis 5:22
Ordinary • Daily • Intentional

Walking with God means:

Moving forward in relationship

Sharing pace and direction

Presence and proximity

Challenge

Where have you settled for "watching" instead of "walking"?

God's Surprising Choice

He Wants You

Cain

Personal conversations

Flawed thinking

Yet God did not destroy him

Seth

At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD
Genesis 4:26

Not the firstborn, but chosen

Shem

Singled out not because of birth order,
but because of God's purpose

Faith & Obedience

Theological Importance

Abram

Your ancestors... worshiped other gods.
Joshua 24:2

Chosen by grace, not spiritual pedigree

Remembered because he said YES

What will you be
remembered by?

God chooses the unlikely and ordinary

God's Mercy and Patience

He Doesn't Give Up

God's Pattern

Adam & Eve: Promise of Redemption

Cain: Warning & Protection

Noah: Judgment & Covenant

Babel: Redirection not Destruction

Babel's Lesson

Different languages

Slow down to understand

God wants us to listen and learn

The "Ouch Moment"

We want:

Control, not partnership

Comfort, not calling

Blessing, not boundaries

Examining Our Hearts

Self-sufficiency: Building your own tower?

Passivity: Waiting for God to do everything?

Selective Obedience: Stopping halfway?

Excuses: Using flaws as reasons not to serve?

The Call

Will You Partner With God?

Not to perfection, but to participation

Jesus Sits Beside Us

Doesn't expect perfect notes

Patiently walks with us

Step by step, note by note

Communion

The greatest act of partnership

Jesus came to walk with us, to suffer for us,
to make a way for us to be restored as His partners.

"Take and eat it; this is my body."
"Drink from it, all of you. For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
Matthew 26:26-28

At This Table

A renewal of the partnership
God has always wanted

Not just a ritual, but a response