Where Are We Going!

Where Are We Going!

Over the next few posts we are going to cover three areas:

1. The Western world’s penchant for minutia and the breaking of the Story into fragments.
2. How Story is an antidote for this fragmentation.
3. The concept of the Kingdom of God as a prism through which we can understand the Story of God.

Houston, “We Have a Problem…”
One of America’s finest hours in space flight came when an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13. The quote “Houston, We have a problem,” is actually a misquote. The actual quote is “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” This was a major problem for those on board the Odyssey. The crew in space and the crew in Houston had to put their minds together to solve this problem and bring the three astronauts back to earth safely.

It is natural when a problem occurs to find a solution. However, sometimes a bigger problem occurs: we don’t know we have a problem. This is the situation with millions of readers of Scripture. We have a problem when we read Scripture and we may not even know it.

A Little Known Problem
The little known problem in Scripture reading is the fragmentized way in which we have come to read it. A little snippet here and a little snippet there, a Bible bit here and a Bible bit there. So if it is a problem, what do we do about it?

We will continue this thought in the next post!