Understanding the Bible as a continuing narrative from creation to consummation follows both the theological and logical flow of the unique library that the Word of God is, and corresponds to the exegesis of Christ and his apostles. Hopefully, by familiarizing ourselves with this plot and storyline here we will be in a better position to integrate its message into our theology, worship, spirituality, service, and mission.

In our judgment, many of our churches today are making two critical mistakes when it comes to understanding the story of God in Scripture:

• We have abandoned the Scripture’s fundamental mode and language of communicating God’s saving acts in history: God’s story!
• We have misread culture which is desperately looking for a story big enough and true enough to shape its course, and lacking our story, feeds on shallow, hollow, and paltry little narratives.

The only answer is to rediscover the Story of God in Christ, to love it with all our hearts, and live it out with honor and joy in the presence of our neighbors, inviting them to see things, as it were, from the vantage point of the Storytelling God.