• The Basics: 1,189 chapters and 66 books fit together to form one glorious, life-giving story.

Psalm 19:7-11 (HCSB), 7 The instruction of the Lord is perfect, renewing one’s life; The testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise. 8 The precepts of the Lord are right, making the heart glad; The command of the Lord is radiant, making the eyes light up. 9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; The ordinances of the Lord are reliable and altogether righteous. 10 They are more desirable than gold—than an abundance of pure gold; and sweeter than honey dripping from a honeycomb. 11 In addition, your servant is warned by them, and in keeping them there is an abundant reward.

 

The Overarching Story and Main Point of the Bible

The Bible is one grand and true story.

All grand stories have a beginning, middle, and end.

  1. The beginning sets the stage and introduces the crisis by detailing the five things every good story needs.
  2. The middle raises the stakes and reveals how the hero ultimately saves the day.
  3. Happy endings bring the longed – for resolution and rest.

 

The Beginning

  • Before the beginning of time, there’s always been God. And nothing else. Only God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Why were we created? For two exciting reasons:

  1. God created us, not because He needs us, but because He wants us.
  2. Second, we were created “for good works.”
  • Our sin and God’s righteous anger bring us to the devastating conflict in the gospel story. To the crisis. To the bad news.
  • The Bad News – Sin entered the world, and it brought death – instant spiritual death and eventual physical death.

 

The Middle

  1.  The Hero would settle the hostility once and for all by defeating Satan and all the world – altering effects of his deception.
  2. The Hinge of History – Everything in the Bible either points forward or backward to the cross.

 

The End

  1. The end of the gospel story is the beginning of forever. Christ will then judge all who have rejected Him; destroy sin, Satan, and death forever; and usher in His eternal kingdom—a more glorious kingdom than we can imagine.
  2. Apart from Christ, we have no hope. In Christ, we’re forever saved. All these truths become clearer as we read God’s Word.

 

The Bible App “Bible in a Year” plans

  • The One Year Chronological Bible by Tyndale
  • Whole Bible in Less Than a Year by Life Church (OT, Psalm, Proverb, NT with one catch up day per week)
  • The Bible in a Year by The American Bible Society (OT, Psalm, Proverb, NT with no days off)
  • New Testament in a Year by The Bible Project
  • Old Testament in a Year by The Bible Project
  • Books of the Bible by The Bible Project

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