True Story Day #23: One month of Bible readings to help you understand what the Bible is about.

Introduction:Over the course of a month, I want to help you appreciate the Bible more by helping you get a better understanding of the story the Bible tells.As Tim Keller has written, “We usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a “moral” for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right.”These Bible readings will help you write your own summary of that single story by taking you to various passages throughout the Scripture that clarify exactly how God is doing that.Helps for Getting the Most from Your Study*Review where you are in the story so far*Read the passages for each day out loud*Get out a notebook and answer the following questions for each day:

1. What stands out to you the most after having read through these Scriptures?
2. If someone asked you what the passages you read that day were mostly about, what would you say?
3. What do you think was the main point of what you were reading?
4. What did these passages teach you about the character of God? What did they teach you about us as humans? What did they teach you about how God saves people?
5. Write one paragraph that summarizes the part of the gospel story these passages tell.

Day Twenty ThreeMatthew 22:37³⁷ Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ Ephesians 5:8-10⁸ For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! ⁹ For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. ¹⁰ Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.1 John 2:15¹⁵ Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.1 John 3:13¹³ So don’t be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.