A brand new guide from leaders out of the 24-7 Prayer motion is in search of to inform the Biblical story in a brand-new method, weaving Scripture and private tales right into a compelling narrative designed to seize the hearts and minds of recent readers hungry for one thing contemporary and actual.
The God Story: Encountering Unfailing Love within the Unfolding Narrative of Scripture, the most recent launch from SPCK Publishing, brings collectively Alain Emerson and Adam Cox as they search to speak the Gospel story in a method that captures its cinematic scope, and demonstrates how it’s as compelling a narrative as something the secular world has to supply, and extra.
“As native pastors, we lengthy for folks to be fashioned via the biblical narrative into assured little children of God,” the authors stated.
“We have taught The God Story for a few years in our church buildings, and our prayer is that you just too would step into the story which is ready so that you can play your half.”
They have intentionally aimed the story at a brand new era looking for which means, understanding that they’re in search of one thing they will establish with on a private degree. The God Story provides private anecdotes and relatable experiences, designed to supply a degree of engagement for these new to the best story ever instructed.
“Everybody loves a superb story – it is like we’re hardwired for it – and what Adam and Alain have given us is a exceptional retelling of the best story of all,” Trent Sheppard, creator of Jesus Journey and Director of Training at YWAM’s University of the Nations, stated.
“Wonderfully down-to-earth and chockfull of pastoral perception and care, The God Story reimagines your entire scope of Scripture. If the Bible has ever felt inaccessible or complicated, culturally backwards and even simply plain outdated boring, this sensible guide is for you.”
Emerson and Cox say that it isn’t simply one other try and get folks to learn Scripture, however a method to assist new readers uncover their very own story’s place in a far higher one.
“Our nice ambition is to cross on The God Story to our era and our youngsters’s era within the hope that its sacred themes will seize their hearts, form their lives, and catapult them proper into the centre of a narrative nonetheless unfolding.”