May 21, 2010

Have You, As Most Of America Has, Lost Your Story?
Deuteronomy 6:20-25 (NLT)

“In the future your children will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the LORD our God has commanded us to obey?’
Then you must tell them, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand. The LORD did miraculous signs and wonders before our eyes, dealing terrifying blows against Egypt and Pharaoh and all his people. He brought us out of Egypt so he could give us this land he had sworn to give our ancestors. And the LORD our God commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear him so he can continue to bless us and preserve our lives, as he has done to this day. For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the LORD our God has given us.’" Deuteronomy 6:20-25 (NLT)

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Can you, in three minutes or less tell the story of the world?

Some think the story of the world is that there was a big bang, nascent life formed, evolved and here we are, with no purpose other than the one we choose to make up. We’re accidents making the best of it. (that story took only seconds to tell!).

Each of us believes some story of the world and which story you believe makes all the difference. What story shapes your life?

The Darwinist story leaves us purposeless. There’s the Lion King story, similar to eastern mysticism, where the circle of life goes round and round but whose destination is, well, round and round. And there’s the Buddhist story (another word for story is wordview) which warns that there is no Buddha to find, that our destiny is to escape the world as a drop gives up it’s existence when it falls to the sea.

What we believe shapes our lives, and, yes, our daily decisions.

Can you tell your children and grandchildren and friends and neighbors the Christian story which America has essentially lost?

Here is The Big Story (as told both in the Old and New Testaments)

God created the world.
The world went wrong.
God chose Abraham’s descendents to rescue the world.
The faithful Israelite, Jesus, did so on the cross.
In fact, He rescued me too.
Here’s what He’s done and is doing in my life.
Now I live to please Him and join Him in rescuing the world with the help of the Holy Spirit
And I will live with Him forever in the New Creation when the final rescue will have been completed.

Is this your story? Does it shape you? Can you tell it?

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