Master the Bible: How to Get and Keep the Big Picture of the Bible's Story

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Mas ter the B i b l e : How to Get and Keep the B i g P i c ture of the B i b l e ’ s Stor y

3. All the enemies of the exalted Christ will be put down, 1 Cor. 15.24-25; Ps. 110.1-3.

4. The giving over of the Kingdom to the Father, 1 Cor. 15.26-28; Ps. 103.19-22.

5. God will become the universe’s All-in-all, Zech. 14.9; Rev. 11.15.

III. Learn the Story of God and Live It Out in Discipleship in Community.

The Church lives by this great drama and is shaped by a counter imagination of the world. The Church’s worship is no mere intellectual fact, no mere personal experience, no mere focus on the self. It is instead a recitation and re-enactment of the mighty deeds of God restoring the world to Himself by His own two hands–the incarnate Word and the life-giving Spirit – resulting in a vision of history, of the world and our place in it that is counter to all the visions of the world held by the world. It is the true story of the world, the truth about the meaning of human existence. You don’t prove it with reason or science. You don’t make it real by experience. Worship is not factualizing it or feeling it. It doesn’t need reason. It doesn’t need feeling. Worship just does it. The drama of the world, that is.

~ Robert Webber. Worship and the Cosmic Drama . (cf. www.ancientfutureworship.com.)

A. Learn the Story of God.

1. God is sovereign over all history, doing whatever he pleases, Ps. 135.6.

2. His counsels and plans stand forever, to all generations, Ps. 33.11; Ps. 115.3.