Truths About HIS Story

A great website, wiewthestory.com, is designed to equip us to tell the greatest Story ever told. We learn some important truths.

1.  The Bible is one BIG story – His Story.

Many people know stories from the Bible but do not know the Story of the Bible.

Imagine that you have a handful of pearls. They are pretty and valuable. But you can’t do much with them as a necklace or bracelet because there’s no string to link them together. But when you link the pearls together with a string… Wow!

Lots of us learn the individual parts of the Bible without understanding the whole. The parts are beautiful and helpful. But they are more beautiful and helpful when they are seen as a part of the whole. The individual parts make a lot more sense when you can see the big picture.

2.  His story has a PLOTLINE.

The Bible has one big plot. Scholars would call the story a meta-narrative. We can look at the Bible as filled with stories that are disjointed and unrelated. Or we can see that all the poems, all the prophecies, all the parables are parts of one plotline that unfolds the Story of God.

But all 66 books and 1,189 chapters of Scripture have one underlying, foundational story. God is on a mission to rescue us from broken, fallen lives and from a broken, fallen world.

3. The theme of His Story is God’s GRACE: Jesus’ rescue and restoration.

The climax and center of this story is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

4. We can all PARTICIPATE in His Story.

God’s story includes a host of characters. God uses people just like you to tell of His redemption and to move His story along to its glorious ending. We can be part of God’s story.

One of the best ways we can participate is by telling His story – by inviting other people to enter the story. So, witnessing, outreach, mission, and evangelism are really pretty simple. We’re just telling a story. We have to become better storytellers.

We’ve been invited – even commanded – to tell the story.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so.  Psalm 107:2 (ESV)

I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)

Knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others… If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. God… gave us the ministry of reconciliation… entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.
II Corinthians 5:11a, 17, 18b, 19b, 20a (ESV)

We can do this. All we have to do is tell a story. Follow the plotline and tell the story.