Christopher JH Wright (I think if you have Wright as a last name your automatically smart).
In the Beginning... we see a lot of reacuring themes throughout the narrative of the Bible, but some of the stronger are; God's continual concern for His creation (even with Noah he doesn't start from scratch, rather he preseves what he has created). With that theme # 2 rebellion of man (Im glad that is only in "Bible times" cuz we don't have that problem, we never see rebellion today ). There is also extencive narrative dedicated to the redmptive purposes of God, and finnally the consumation and resotration of a new creation.
He uses people (His creation), who are broken and rebellious too call (bless) other rebellious people back to restoration with Him, and always pointing to that birth of a new day of new creation and covenant. So, how often do you see those themes throughout the Bible? As mentioned Sunday these are "big plank" items. Theses are our themes, our story. These are the things we throw ourselves at first, lest we forget what Paul warns "If God cut off natural branches in order to include unnatural branches to be graphed in, how much easier would it be to cut out that graphed shoot for the same disobedience." (DP aka Dave Paraphrase) So how are we with the story of God? Are we letters of recommendation that God has written as Paul mentions?or have we forgot much of His writing upon this earth and our lives?
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