Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, this is our third weekend in a series that we call Pillars.

And I'm going to summon the biblical principles we're going to look at today under the headline,

my me and my we. My Me and My We.

And we're going to start out today, Church, in Genesis chapter 1. Why not start from the very

beginning? By the way, this is a very note-taking, worthy message. So if you normally take notes, then this is for you, and if you

don't normally do that, just start today. Genesis for chapter 1, verse 26. This is the verse that

precedes the creation of mankind. And it says, then God said, let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.

This is such a special verse, and also it's grammatically incorrect, unless you understand the nature

of God. Because it starts by saying, then God said, that's God in singular one God one person one one

individual the Holy Creed of Israel reads the Lord our God the Lord is one but then it goes on to

say let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.

So in the very first chapter of the Bible, God introduces himself as a me and a we,

as an individual God, but also as a fellowship, a community of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

And He says it creates us in his image, in his likeness.

So just like him, we have a me, but we also have a we.

God will always look at you partly as an individual, but also as a part of something that is larger than yourself.

As a part of a fellowship, a community, a church, a part of his kingdom where you fit in like a piece

in the puzzle. And it's so important for us to understand that we have a me part, an individual

perspective of our walk with Christ, but also a collective we that God will use. Because there are some things that God will only and can

only do from the me perspective of your life and the me perspective of your walk with Christ.

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