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Series: Genesis: Act 2
Jason Dees
Genesis 12:1-9
Scripture and Prayer. Our Scripture Reading for Today Comes From Genesis 12:1-9
This is God's Word
One of the phrases that you hear very regularly is ''the right side of history''. I want to be on the right side of history. Are you going to be on the right side of history? That is a telling statement. It shows that we think of our lives as a part of a narrative, as a part of story. Of course, we understand that we are characters in this larger story that is being told, and of course, the phrase implies that when all of this shakes out, and if you choose wrongly, you will be on the wrong side of history; you will be one of the antagonists, one of the bad guys in the story, but if you choose rightly, then you will be the good guy in the story, the hero of the story.
Now, again I think the way that we think this way, the way that we understand our lives this way is very telling. We are a people of story. Kurt Ranke, a German Scholar, says we are most truly called Homo Narrans not Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapien means the rational human or the wise human. Homo Narrans is a story-telling people, and Kurt Ranke says, ''we aren't always wise, we aren't always rational but we are always a people of story.'' We always see ourselves within a story, and the story that we find ourselves in defines what we understand about good and bad and right and wrong. This, of course, is why so much of the Bible is a story; this is why so much of the Bible is a narrative. God through his Word is calling you into a story. God is calling you out of a false narrative and into the true narrative. Through scripture, God is calling you out of false stories about the world into His true story.
For a long time in my Bible study I remember thinking, ''Why is the Bible like this? Why does it have all of this narrative? Why doesn't it just say this is what you are supposed to do?'' You know at one time the Bible was like th ...
Series: Genesis: Act 2
Jason Dees
Genesis 12:1-9
Scripture and Prayer. Our Scripture Reading for Today Comes From Genesis 12:1-9
This is God's Word
One of the phrases that you hear very regularly is ''the right side of history''. I want to be on the right side of history. Are you going to be on the right side of history? That is a telling statement. It shows that we think of our lives as a part of a narrative, as a part of story. Of course, we understand that we are characters in this larger story that is being told, and of course, the phrase implies that when all of this shakes out, and if you choose wrongly, you will be on the wrong side of history; you will be one of the antagonists, one of the bad guys in the story, but if you choose rightly, then you will be the good guy in the story, the hero of the story.
Now, again I think the way that we think this way, the way that we understand our lives this way is very telling. We are a people of story. Kurt Ranke, a German Scholar, says we are most truly called Homo Narrans not Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapien means the rational human or the wise human. Homo Narrans is a story-telling people, and Kurt Ranke says, ''we aren't always wise, we aren't always rational but we are always a people of story.'' We always see ourselves within a story, and the story that we find ourselves in defines what we understand about good and bad and right and wrong. This, of course, is why so much of the Bible is a story; this is why so much of the Bible is a narrative. God through his Word is calling you into a story. God is calling you out of a false narrative and into the true narrative. Through scripture, God is calling you out of false stories about the world into His true story.
For a long time in my Bible study I remember thinking, ''Why is the Bible like this? Why does it have all of this narrative? Why doesn't it just say this is what you are supposed to do?'' You know at one time the Bible was like th ...
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