The gospel did not begin in Bethlehem. It was first announced in Eden.
Genesis is often read as a collection of familiar origin stories-creation, the fall, the flood, the call of Abraham, the wrestling of Jacob, the suffering of Joseph. But read together, these accounts tell one unified story: God's work of redemption, planned from the beginning and moving toward its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
In Genesis: The First Gospel, pastor Daniel Y. Cho traces that story from the first words of Scripture to Joseph's final confession, "God will surely come to your aid." Born from a year of preaching through Genesis at Pistos Church, this book shows how the promise of Genesis 3:15-the protoevangelium-runs like a red thread through every chapter, and how God's grace is always greater than the human failure it meets.
Each of the twenty chapters follows a simple, consistent structure designed for personal study and small groups:
- Overview - the passage in its place within God's story
- Interpretation - what the text meant and how it points to Christ
- Application - what it means to live inside this story today
- Resolution - the chapter's central truth, stated plainly
- Check Point - seven reflection questions for individuals or groups
Whether you are reading Genesis for the first time or the fiftieth, this book will help you see the first book of the Bible as it was meant to be seen: not merely as history, but as the opening chapter of the gospel-and as the story you are still living in.
God began. And God will complete.
