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Most of us have read the Bible’s opening line, “In the beginning God created…” But what was He doing before that? What kind of God is He? Chapter 1 of The Story introduces us to who God is and His eternal nature of other-centered love.
Love naturally finds expression, and God’s love was expressed in the creation of humanity. Chapter 2 paints a picture of the world as God originally intended it to be: overflowing with complete joy, beauty, and freedom.
God’s plan was beautiful, but something went terribly wrong. His love was rejected and the freedom He gave humanity was abused. Chapter 3 dissects how this fall from love has made our world what it is today and sets the stage for the rest of Scripture.
After the Fall, God does the unthinkable. He makes a promise—a covenant—to save humanity and keep loving us at any cost to Himself. Chapter 4 traces the history of God’s covenantal faithfulness and humanity’s consistent failure to live in light of God’s promise.
Chapter 5 introduces us to the God who not only makes a promise but keeps it too: Messiah. The Old Testament is filled with story after story of human failure to keep covenant with God. So God Himself became one of us, doing for us what we could never do for ourselves.
As the disciples shared the good news of God’s covenantal faithfulness, they turned the world upside down with the gospel. This is the church. Chapter 6 explains God’s mission for His people and how He will see it through to completion.
The story starts in a perfect world and ends in a perfect world. Chapter 7 reveals how God will wipe out evil once and for all, and then recreate the earth so that it is again filled with eternal beauty, love, and freedom.

Curriculum in a class of its own.

Learn to see God’s faithful love as the theme of every part of the Bible. From beginning to end, the seven chapters of this course will take you through Scripture as one big, irresistible story.

Curriculum includes over 130 hours of material distributed across more than 50 lessons. Download curriculum overview for details.

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