According To The Scriptures

Boys I've been thinking a lot about this blog.  The seed of my desire to retell the One True Story as revealed in the scriptures to you seems to have fallen on rocky soil or shallow soil.  I find myself driving from work, thinking of a scripture, thinking of how I should go about this; Should I start at the beginning and go through the Bible?  Should I pick a verse I'm reading and just expound on it?  Should I try to just retell the main "stories" of the Bible?  I find myself reading things other wise Christians have written these past few weeks that have contributed to the decision I've come to.

Ken Ham is a man who does a great work of urging Christians to take the Bible for what it says, especially in regards to creation and the account of Genesis.  Because you boys have been asking me a lot about how we can know that the Bible is true, and how we can know that the flood really happened, etc., I decided to order some materials from his ministry, Answers In Genesis.  While ordering, I ran across a quote from the creators of the material that went something like this, "We shouldn't be teaching our kids Bible 'stories'.  They will begin to think of David and Goliath along the same lines as Beauty and the Beast... Just another fairy tale.  Instead when we teach them we should say, 'This is the true account of David and Goliath, or the world-wide flood, etc."

I have no problem with the term Bible stories as long as you  know these are TRUE stories.  This is not fiction.  These are non-fiction stories.  These are true accounts.  Real history.

I'm excited to get the material I ordered.  I'm praying that I will be able to teach it to you and hopefully other kid too, over the summer as sort of a vacation Bible school.  I'd love to invite some neighborhood kids.  We'll see what God allows.

So back to what I was saying.  I also am reading a wonderful book about the disciplines of a woman of God.  The author says at one point that one of the things we often miss in teaching others the gospel of Christ is that the Gospel of Christ is revealed from Genesis to Revelation.  It's not just in the New Testament.  When Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians he said:

"For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures..." (1 Cor.15:3-4).  

When Paul wrote that he didn't have a leather bound Bible from Walmart and neither did the people he wrote to.  He had the Old Testament.  He had the writings of Moses and the Psalms and prophets.  These are the scriptures according to which we find out that Christ died for our sins and was buried and rose again on the third day.  This lights me up!  I love it!  I want you to see that.  But I can't make you see it.

Oh how I pray that the Holy Spirit will give you understanding to see Christ your Savior who died for your sins and was buried and raised from the dead from Genesis to Revelation!

Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. -Luke 24:25-27

Why "The One True Story"?

I read this book awhile back.  It's about how to apply the gospel to our everyday parenting.  In the book, the authors talk about their parenting policy concerning the movies and books their children watch and read.  In a quote, the Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson write:

Our hope is that if we have taught them how to discern the one good story and judge every other story by it, they'll be better equipped to answer the wicked Imposter's lies when they hear them.

The one good story.  It made an impression on me.  That old, old story I heard about in hymns growing up.  I decided to refer to it as The One True Story.  The message of the gospel of Christ in the Bible is the truth to judge every other story by.  It is the plumb-line.  It is the compass.  It is the mirror.  It is the divider of thoughts and intents.  It is the One True Story.

When I first set out to write this blog, I decided upon a title My145:4 after Psalm 145:4.  But the more I've thought about getting over here to get this thing going I've had "The One True Story" come to mind.  So, The One True Story- A re-telling of the Bible for my children it is.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it  and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.- 2 Timothy 3:14-17

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.- Luke 24:27