Christmas Musicals for Church
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6 READER 2: ���Then God said, ���Let us make mankind . . . in our likeness . . .��� So God created mankind in his own image . . . male and female . . . he created them.��� READER 1: READERS 1, 2 & 3: ���And God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.��� READER 2: (softly) ���God rested.��� HOST: God had created a beautiful world and filled it with glorious and diverse creatures. Of all his creation, he singled out two humans to build a relationship with���Adam and Eve. These two people were blessed to share their paradise with each other and God, so why would they want anything else? READER 2: ���The LORD God . . . put them in the Garden of Eden . . . to take care of it. And he commanded ���You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.������ READER 3: ���But when the woman saw the fruit, she ate it.��� READER 1: ���She also gave some to her husband, and he ate it.��� READER 2: ���Then the LORD God said, ���What is this you have done?��� And He banished them from the Garden of Eden.��� re v ie w O nl y ���And on the seventh day . . . ��� rP (music begins to ���Who But You���) The tragic accounts of the mistakes and poor choices of Adam and Eve are echoed in the later stories of hardship and tragedy for their children and their children���s children. But even then, God began to make a way back for us. He began by building more than a road. He built . . . a nation. Abraham had all the wrong qualifications for being the founder of God���s nation���he and his wife Sarah were way beyond childbearing years; no children meant no people to populate God���s nation. But God promised the impossible to Abraham, and Abraham watched as the impossible occurred. Fo HOST: