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readers. The story of the Bible is creation, fall, and then covenant community—page after page of community—as the context in which our wonderful redemption takes place.
- Scot McKnight
The church becomes a community called atonement every time it reads the story of Jesus and every time it identifies itself with that story and every time it invites others to listen in to hear that story. Reading Scripture and listening to Scripture and letting Scripture incorporate us into its story is atoning.
- Scot McKnight
I hope at some time you can read J. R. R. Tolkien's brilliant short story called "Leaf by Niggle," because I can think of no better description of the continuity of this life in the New Heavens and the New Earth.)
- Scot McKnight
But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.
- Scot McKnight
as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.
- Scot McKnight
That is, until we find the story that leads us to the gospel claim that Jesus is the Messiah, we don't have the Bible's story right.
- Scot McKnight
The church, if it is going to be the church God designed it to be, must become a space for the full story of God's artistic grace — the story about where we were, where we are now, and where we will be someday.
- Scot McKnight
we who seek to indwell the Bible's Story are indwelling the omniscient perspective of the divine's narration.
- Scot McKnight
It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others.
- Scot McKnight
We in the Western world are obsessed with our individual relationship with God, which leads us to read the Bible as morsels of blessings and promises and as Rorschach inkblots. But reading the Bible as Story opens up a need so deep we sometimes aren't aware we need it: oneness with others under the King who rules his Kingdom.
- Scot McKnight
Until we learn to read the Bible as Story, we will not know how to get anything out of the Bible for daily living.
- Scot McKnight
It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others. Bible readers, especially pastors (and commenters on blogs), inevitably begin to think like God about ourselves and others.
- Scot McKnight