When we discover the bible as one grand story of redemption, that’s when it really comes alive, that’s when Jesus becomes even more beautiful to us.  Today Brad Gray of Walking the Text (walkingthetext.com) helps us with this big time.  First he shows us the thread of shalom that runs from Genesis to Revelation.  Shalom is this idea that everything is as it should be, which is not the reality in our world.  But God’s plan has always been to make everything right through Jesus and then through us, his people! 

Then we dive into how the gospel of Matthew connects the dots between the Hebrew scriptures (the Old Testament) and the new.  Specifically how Matthew accurately paints Jesus as the second and final Moses who leads into freedom from sin, Satan, slavery and death.  Then we want to know if the hypersensitivity to hygiene due to Covid 19 has altered our view of the 10 second rule—you know, will you pick that food off the floor that you just dropped and still eat it? 

And finally we get some practical ideas on how to read the bible as story and what happens in us as we learn to do this.  Check out a 73 minute teaching at walkingthetext.com called The Restoration of All Things to get the 30,000 foot view of what the one story of the bible is.  Share this if it encourages you!