The Big Story
The Grand Narrative of the Bible • Sermon • Submitted
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· 8 viewsThe cross is understood only in the Biblical narrative.
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Intro
Intro
“Okay class, this morning we’re going to learn about “gout” - actually doubt
Lewis Black - the kind of comment that makes your brain come to a screeching halt
I’m afraid that might be the story of Lent, if it’s not in the Biblical story
We’ve reduced the Gospel to make it more “understandable”
Answering Big Questions
Answering Big Questions
The grand narrative addresses four major universal questions
Where did we come from?
What went wrong?
What hope is there?
What does the future hold?
These cut across cultures and generations
The grand narrative is the story told across the pages, chapters, and books of the Scriptures
We can get lost in the details
Illiad, book 2 - the catalogue of ships
Numbers, psalms, proverbs, all contribute to this narrative, but can get lost in it
Short Answers Make Long Questions
Short Answers Make Long Questions
An abridged story leaves unanswered questions
The Odyssey is far more interesting in my view, but it makes a lot less sense if you don’t know the Illiad; it heightens and informs issues
Without the other parts of the story, individual sections make little or no sense
w/o creation, we don’t know who’s actually important - the HS yearbook
w/o fall, we don’t know what’s actually wrong (what if the world is just this way
w/o restoration, redemption (the central act) makes no sense
w/o a guide, we can get lost - Ethiopian eunuch
Without the story, the Bible is merely a book of religious statements
the Bible gives our history - a history that gives us all a place and purpose
our 25th shouldn’t just look back
learning to say Jesus at the right time v. learning to worship the Creator who made us