What is the Bible about?
I think we all know the answer to that question – Jesus. It’s easy to say the Bible is about Jesus without actually thinking about it. But have you ever thought about how each individual story, song, and prayer is divinely ordained by God to point to His Son? Listen to this message by Tim Keller:
I love this video. I love the truth in it. I love the passion in his voice. I love how excited he is about Jesus and how exciting these truths are to me. We showed this video to our 9th grade girls a few months back and it has helped frame each passage we study. It has served as a continual reminder of what everything in the Bible points to and what everything in our lives should point to.
Each time we study a new story or passage, I ask the girls, “What is the Bible about?” They answer, “Jesus.” Then I ask, “So what is this particular story about? What is it pointing to?” That is such a great place to begin discussion of how all passages in the Old and New Testaments prepare and point our hearts toward Jesus.
As we study the metanarrative of the Bible – Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation/Restoration – we are continually reminded that the main character is Christ. And as we seek to have our lives in line with God and seek to be a part of His story, we are reminded that Christ, not self, is also the main character in our lives.
It’s not about us.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. – Colossians 1.15-20
Hey, Henry! Thanks for posting that. I'll probably use it for the Bible study I'm preparing for the summer. It sums things up rather quickly where people can understand it.
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