What is the Bible About?

What Is the Bible About?

My last piece was a response to a church window that I had seen with a slogan that simply read, "People Matter Most".  My response included a discussion pertaining to the role of the church and how people fit into the economy of God.  My assertion was that people do matter but from scripture, we can't conclude that people matter most.  In the economy of God, it is having a heart after God that matters most, the value of people is derived from the importance that they have to Christ.

In this video, Tim Keller does a wonderful job explaining that everything in the Bible points to Jesus.  Contrary to popular belief, Jesus is found in both Old and New Testament.  This video does a nice job at pointing out this illustration.

What is the Gospel

Quote - The girl nobody wanted...



Quote from

Timothy Keller's "Counterfeit Gods"

"God had come to the girl (Leah) that nobody wanted, the unloved, and made her the ancestral mother of Jesus.  Salvation came into the world, not through beautiful Rachel, but through the unwanted one, the unloved one."