Week 3 of 4 week study on the Bible. Focus on New Testament.

1. The Bible
God’s Grand Story: Act 2
Week 3

2. What is the Bible?
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart
- it is a book full of all the greed and glory
and violence and tenderness and sex and
betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the
collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed
by pious little church mice - it does not so
much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to
the heart and splits the marrow from the
bone. It does not give us answers fitted to
our small-minded questions, but truth that
goes beyond what we can even know to ask.
from Thoughts and Reflections by Rich Mullins

3. What is the Bible?
• A working definition:
A collection of writings
containing the record and
revelation of God’s
interaction with man.

4. … of God’s interaction with
man.
• Actual people
• Actual places
• Actual problems
• Actual encounters
• Actually God

5. Old Testament
Genesis - Deuteronomy – The Law
Joshua – Chronicles – The Land
Ezra – Ester – The People
Isaiah – Malachi –
The Preparation
Creation Job – Song of Solomon – The Heart

6. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
– Matthew
– Mark
– Luke
– John

7. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
• History
– Acts

8. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
• History
• Paul’s Letters
– Romans - Philemon

9. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
• History
• Paul’s Letters
• Other Letters
– Hebrews-Jude

10. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
• History
• Paul’s Letters
• Other Letters
• Prophecy
– Revelation

12. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
– Matthew - King
– Mark – Action
– Luke - Account
– John - Confidence

13. New Testament
• Gospels – Good News
• History
– Acts - Church

14. New Testament
• Paul’s Letters
– Romans – Anatomy
– 1, 2 Corinthians - Body
– Galatians - Freedom
– Ephesians - Integration
– Philippians - Joy
– Colossians - Heresy
– 1, 2 Thessalonians - Reply
– Timothy - Bold
– Titus - Lead
– Philemon - Personal

15. New Testament
• Other Letters
– Hebrews - Better
– James - Practice
– 1, 2 Peter - Persecution
– 1-3 John - Doctrine
– Jude - Contend

16. New Testament
• Prophecy
– Revelation - Return

17. New Testament
Book Date Book Date
James 45-49 Philippians 63
Galatians 49 Philemon 63-64
Thessalonians 51 1 Peter 63-66
Mark 50-60 1 Timothy 63-66
Matthew 50-60 Titus 64-68
Corinthians 55-58 Hebrews 66
Romans 60 2 Peter 67
Luke 61 2 Timothy 68-80
Acts 61 Jude 85-90
Colossians 61 John 85-90
Ephesians 61 1,2,3 John 90-95
Revelation

18. Summary
• The New Testament focus is on
Christ as God’s supreme
revelation.
• We are part of a never ending
story.