The Story of Scripture
Imagine moving into a house without closets, without cupboards, without shelves, and without furniture. You stack up all your boxes. You sift through piles of clothes to get dressed. You move ten boxes to find the one thing you need. You empty out five more to find something else. In all your sifting the confusion spreads. As the chaos grows, you cry out in exasperation: This is no way to live! This is no way to live at home, and it’s no way to live with God’s Word. The Bible is not disordered, but it is big. We feel overwhelmed by it. We don’t know where to start, and we don’t have the furniture we need to make sense of it all. We know there are some helpful bits here and there, but half the time we can’t find them when we go looking. Much of the rest we don’t understand at all. We don’t know what goes where, so we stick with the few things we know and work around the rest as best we can. If you feel this way, you are not alone. This is why the Holy Spirit gives the church ...