Every Christian agrees that the Bible is important. But what you believe about the Bible has the potential to dramatically change your experience as a Christian. Is it a collection of stories? A guidebook? Or is it something…more?
Watch as Trevin Wax, General Editor of The Gospel Project, explains what we mean when we say “gospel story,” and why we believe it changes everything:
Transcript: The Bible is not about you. On the surface, most Christians would agree with that statement. And yet, we often read and study the Bible in a way that is about us. For example, when we read the stories of the Old Testament, we draw moral conclusions to inform how we live our lives. We read about how David kills Goliath, and draw the conclusion that God will help us slay our own giants. The same is true of the parts of the Bible that aren’t stories. Books like Psalms and Proverbs, the Major and Minor Prophets, and much of the New Testament. We read these to tell us how to live—or how not to—and draw on our own pursuit of spiritual discipline to obey. And you may be wondering, what’s wrong with that? But what if I told you that there is so much more going on in the Bible. So much more than its stories or books or Testaments? Something so singularly important and life-altering that it completely reframes what we understand the Bible to be? What if I told you the Bible is actually one story: God’s plan to rescue His people from sin through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. And that it is not we who slay the giant, but Jesus who slew the ultimate giant: sin and death. Jesus, then, is not part of the Bible story, but the point of every story in the Bible—from Genesis to Revelation. It is Jesus who fulfills the requirements of Scripture on our behalf. And every page works to reveal a single narrative designed since Creation to continually remind us of our need for a Savior and God’s desire to redeem us. This story, then, is a love story, filled with good news for everyone who hears it. A gospel story. And it changes everything.
Have you seen the first four sessions of The Gospel Project, Volume 1: In The Beginning?
Transcript: The Bible is not about you. On the surface, most Christians would agree with that statement. And yet, we often read and study the Bible in a way that is about us. For example, when we read the stories of the Old Testament, we draw moral conclusions to inform how we live our lives. We read about how David kills Goliath, and draw the conclusion that God will help us slay our own giants. The same is true of the parts of the Bible that aren’t stories. Books like Psalms and Proverbs, the Major and Minor Prophets, and much of the New Testament. We read these to tell us how to live—or how not to—and draw on our own pursuit of spiritual discipline to obey. And you may be wondering, what’s wrong with that? But what if I told you that there is so much more going on in the Bible. So much more than its stories or books or Testaments? Something so singularly important and life-altering that it completely reframes what we understand the Bible to be? What if I told you the Bible is actually one story: God’s plan to rescue His people from sin through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. And that it is not we who slay the giant, but Jesus who slew the ultimate giant: sin and death. Jesus, then, is not part of the Bible story, but the point of every story in the Bible—from Genesis to Revelation. It is Jesus who fulfills the requirements of Scripture on our behalf. And every page works to reveal a single narrative designed since Creation to continually remind us of our need for a Savior and God’s desire to redeem us. This story, then, is a love story, filled with good news for everyone who hears it. A gospel story. And it changes everything.
