Over the past month, we have looked at the story of humanity as presented in the Bible. But what do our relationships tell us about where we see ourselves fitting in to this great story? Guest preacher Joel St. Clair leads us through a look at relationships as they were, are and will one day be.

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We’ve talked about the four chapters of God’s story, but we would never be able to make it through to the end of the story if God hadn’t come to meet us in the middle.

There are times when we try hard not to know how something ends—the new Batman movie, for instance. But overall, humanity tries hard to figure out how things are going to play out—crystal balls, palm reading, weather forecasting, stock market predictions. When it comes to the story of humanity, God has already slipped us the ending. And by seeing the end guaranteed in Jesus, we get to know that God’s purpose is to restore everything—even us.

The Bible is not a tragedy. Sin and brokenness are barely established before God promises rescue from them. David lived out the consequences of sin, but he also experienced a foretaste of the redemption that we get to experience in full.

The great and pervasive brokenness that the Bible calls sin slowly turned King David from a pro-active and just person into someone who was passive, envious and willing to take things that didn’t belong to him. Even the “man after God’s own heart” wasn’t immune from this moral decay—and neither are we.

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Because we encourage our Community Groups to hold social events instead of regular meetings and sermon discussions for the month of August, there is no sermon discussion guide for this week’s sermon.

Christianity is not just a call to a new set of rules by which to live your life—it is an invitation to live your life as part of a new, different and larger story. And unlike the stories offered by many other philosophies and worldviews, the way that story starts is incredibly important to how the rest of the story is shaped.