Worldview Change Through Storying
Summary of a series of 9 stories that conversationally walk through the story of redemption.
- Stories Overview
Stories Overview
⬛ All are sinners
⬛ 1. Creation and Fall
Main points of the story
- God created man to rule under God’s authority as his representative
- God shows his authority over mankind with a command
- The justice of the death penalty
- Adam & Eve chose to follow Satan, became his slaves
- God cursed Satan and gave a great promise
- Suffering and hardship are result of losing eternal life
- God himself covers their shame
Details of specific gospel truth
- Man disobeyed and followed Satan instead of God
- Man becomes Satan’s slave
- Hardship, pain and death show that all are sinners.
- Impossibility of saving ourselves (garments of fig leaves)
🟥 Death is God’s just judgment of sin
🟥 2. Flood and Judgment
Main points of the story
- Mankind was completely sinful in all his thoughts / deeds
- God was grieved by the sin of the world
- God showed grace to Noah
- God warned of his judgment and provided a way of escape
- The flood destroyed everything except those in the ark
- After the flood, Noah offered an animal sacrifice
- God currently mercifully withholds judgment and gives us a way to escape it
Details of specific gospel truth
- Everyone is completely sinful and subject to death
- God certainly judges sin with death
🟩 God graciously provides a way of salvation
Promise · People · Penalty-bearer
🟩 3. Covenant with Abraham (Promise)
Main points of the story
- Abraham was called by God and he obeyed
- God’s covenant with Abraham (blessing for nations)
- Abraham tried to fulfill promises himself with Ishmael
- God gave Isaac, the child of promise
- God gave circumcision to all Abraham’s house
- Moriah event; Abraham’s faith and God’s provision
Details of specific gospel truth
- Justification by faith in God’s promise
- God’s promise to Abraham is for all nations
- All who believe God’s promise are children of Abraham
- Actions show faith in God’s promise
🟩 4. Exodus from Egypt / Sinai covenant (People)
Main points of the story
- God sends Moses
- Plagues, Passover, and defeat of Egypt at the Red Sea
- Receiving the covenant of law at Sinai (covenant formula)
- Israel’s idolatry and Moses’ intercession
- Moses promised “a prophet like me”
- Need for a circumcised heart
Details of specific gospel truth
- Defeat of Satan’s kingdom and entry into God’s kingdom as his subjects
- God creates a people that belong to him
- New covenant needed and promised in order to make people holy.
🟩 5. Tabernacle / Day of Atonement (penalty-bearer)
Main points of the story
- The tabernacle as God’s dwelling with his people
- God’s holiness and separateness from sin
- God made a way to approach him
- Role of the high priest as mediator in the ritual
- The meaning of sacrifice and blood
- How Jesus fulfilled this ceremony (Hebrews)
Details of specific gospel truth
- Substitute’s life purifies and forgives
- Need for a high priest
- Promised Savior bears our penalty (Isa. 53)
🟨 Glorious eternal life with God is coming
🟨 6. God’s Kingdom on earth / David
Main points of the story
- Israel, needing a king, got king they wanted—Saul
- God’s choice of King David, a man after his own heart
- God’s promise to David and his son
- Israel under David’s son, Solomon, was glorious, pointing forward to a better, eternal Son
- Disintegration of Israel due to sin
- Captivity and waiting for the Son of David
Details of specific gospel truth
- God’s people under a perfect king will dwell forever in peace/security/plenty
- Israel as earthly kingdom points to an eternal kingdom not of this world (Heb. 12.18-28)
- Church is present experience of God’s kingdom
🟦 Jesus Christ is the promised Savior
King · Son of God
🟦 7. Birth of David’s promised son (Matthew)
Main points of the story
- Jesus, son of David, born in Bethlehem as a humble king
- Wise men (gentile nations) worship him
- Christ as second Adam defeats Satan’s temptations
- Christ is crucified as Israel’s king
- Christ raised from the dead
- Christ in authority commissions his church
Details of specific gospel truth
- Christ is the promised Son of David, Israel’s king
- Christ as second Adam rules where Adam failed to rule
- Christ dies as king
- Resurrected Christ reigns eternally
- Church’s discipleship with authority of Christ
🟦 8. Jesus Christ is the Son of God (John)
Main points of the story
- John writes to show that Jesus is the Christ (anointed king), the Son of God (Jn 20.31)
- Son’s existence before he came to earth (Jn 1)
- Jesus’ words and works are signs pointing to his identity
- Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to be with us (Jn 14)
- The Spirit and “re-birth” (Jn. 3)
Details of specific gospel truth
- Jesus is God’s eternal Son
- Jesus is worthy of worship
- Jesus is how we know God (Jn 14)
- Jesus unites us to God his Father by the Holy Spirit (Jn 3)
🔵 Repentance and faith in Christ are our necessary response
🔵 9. Death / Resurrection / Ascension / Coming of Christ (Luke, Romans)
Main points of the story
- Jesus healed and delivered in the power of the Spirit, showing that life is in him (Lk. 4)
- Warning of rejecting the Spirit’s testimony (Lk. 12)
- Jesus predicted his death, it was the plan of God
- Jesus was crucified, but also rose from the dead
- Jesus explains that all was according to Tanakh
- Christ ascended to the Father and promised to return
- Jesus called followers to die with him, but they also live in hope of being with him eternally (Lk 9.23-27, Rm 6, 8)
Details of specific gospel truth
- We are sinners who have rejected Christ just like those who killed him; we must repent
- Jesus’ radical call to discipleship
- Union with Christ in his death and resurrection by faith, symbolized by baptism
- The hope that faith rests in
Tap the table to view it full size. To save it, press and hold (phone) or right-click (computer) and choose Save image.
Write a comment