Does your life story form part of a bigger story or is it a loose-standing tale?

6. Ephesians 1:7-12 NLT
He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our
freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins. He has
showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and
understanding. God has now revealed to us His mysterious plan
regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill His own good pleasure. And this
is the plan: At the right time He will bring everything together
under the authority of Christ – everything in heaven and on earth.
Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have
received an inheritance from God, for He chose us in advance,
and He makes everything work out according to His plan. God’s
purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ
would bring praise and glory to God.

7. The metanarrative
ONE big story
… the Christian gospel . . . tells how for the
world’s redemption God entered into history,
the eternal came into time, the kingdom of
heaven invaded the realm of earth, in the great
events of the incarnation, crucifixion, and
resurrection of Jesus the Christ.
FF Bruce

8. The metanarrative
Why?
• Why me?
• Why the Church?

9. If you don’t know history, then you don’t
know anything. You are a leaf that
doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
Michael Crichton