God Makes the First Move

In his classic work, Basic Christianity, John Stott shares this most fundamental truth about God: God always makes the first move. Whether it is the creation or our personal relationship, we are never first to the scene.

‘In the beginning God.’ The first four words of the Bible are more than a way of launching the story of creation or introducing the book of Genesis. They supply the key which opens our understanding to the Bible as a whole. They tell us that the religion of the Bible is a religion in which God takes the…