Sometimes one of the greatest prayers we can pray is not, “Lord, change them,” it is, “Lord, change me and my attitude.” The focus on God’s rescue of us should lead us to the place where we cease thinking how great we are and start to live as if Jesus is great. The Gospel is the only way we will ever take responsibility for our own life and not walk away dejected.
Believe it or not, there is a Christian culture inside the church in America. We are the product of what is known as Western civilization. Western thinkers, which is what we are, have a tendency to see things in a linear fashion (A, B, C…), but many times Hebrew (or non-western) writers would put pen to paper in a totally different flow. In The Greatest Story Ever RE-told we are going to look at a some bible passages and stories that we have RE-narrated to fit our cultural context and hopefully help us to see the original story that was told.