God's Story and Ours

I like what Michael Lawrence says about God's story and ours in Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church. He says that rather than treating the Bible as life's little answer book, we need to see it as...

"...the grand story that gives our stories meaning. This means that the vision we need comes...from a prayerful habit of mind that refuses to understand Today according to the terms of the cultural narratives at hand--the narragives of progress, ethnicity, and accumulation, to name a few. Instead, Today is defined in light of the biblical story. That story increasingly defines who we are, where we've come from, and where we're going. As a result, that story tells us what we should be doing and thinking and feeling Today."