We humans sense the need to belong to a time and place.  We perceive that we are part of something bigger than we are, that we are not isolated, random happenings, but that life has meaning and purpose.  Religions, mythologies, larger-than-life stories of patriotism and national origin are some ways that we seek to satisfy this desire.  For several decades, however, many observers of contemporary Western society have lamented that people in developed countries have gradually lost their sense of time and place.  We don’t seem to belong anymore.  We don’t know what “story” we are part of.  In the language of specialists, there is no accepted metanarrative, no grand story to help us interpret time and space (generally) and our place in it (particularly). 

Some recent thinkers have celebrated the loss of metanarrative.  They have suggested that people only use such beliefs to marginalize others or to advance their own power agendas.  But Christianity—at least historic Christianity—has always argued that there is a grand story.  Christianity, in fact, can only be understood as part of God’s story, or, as this book will call it, the Kingdom Story.  Christians believe that the Bible wonderfully answers the questions, What’s life all about?  What’s the purpose of history?  What story are we human beings involved in?

The Bible is at its heart a story—a true story and the best story of all.  Better than a book of theology, the Bible contains the one true grand narrative.  It records more historical material than it does anything else (for example, laws, poems, prophesies, doctrinal explanations).  If we are to understand the Bible, first of all we need to know its story, the Kingdom Story, from start to finish. 

For the story from start to finish, click HERE and listen to “A WALK THROUGH THE BIBLE” with Dr. Kendell Easley.