The Story
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It will be designed to help you become so familiar with the story of Scripture that you'll be able to read anywhere in it and know how it all fits into the story of God revealing himself in the world. It will also help you connect his story with your own so that you will be able to test things that you read and hear by the Scriptures.
We will begin with Paul's re-telling of the story in the synagogue in Psidian Antioch found in Acts 13:16-41. Read it over and over again, until the story becomes real and familiar to you.
Then go and read the gospels over and over again over a period of months until the Jesus of the Bible becomes a real person in your mind. See how he lived, how he thought and how he treated people in a variety of circumstances. Ask him to make himself known to you in the telling of his life so that you can recognize his touch in your life today.
- Start with Mark which gives a quick overview of the story.
- Then read Matthew, paying particular attention to the ideal of true life that he paints in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) and then how he lived in that reality as he shared the kingdom with people.
- Then read John to add more of the theology of who he is and what he came to do in us. Especially become familiar with the content of John 13-17, the last words with his disciples explaining to them the relationsihip he and his Father and the Spirit would have with them beyond his death and resurrection.
- Finally ready Luke and flesh out the story a bit more.