1. The Purpose of the Bible

2. Who Was the Bible Written To?

3. Who Was The Bible Written For?

4. Some Implications:
We are listening in to a conversation between God and his creation.
Before you can know what a Bible passage means for you, you have to know what it meant to someone else.

5. Some More Implications
We have to take the context of a Bible passage seriously if we are to understand it.
The purpose of the Bible is not to give you wise words to guide your daily life!

6. We are living in a real world
Creation
We are living in a real world

7. Bad things happen to good people
Fall
Bad things happen to good people

8. God is involved in this world
Incarnation
God is involved in this world

9. God’s grace changes everything
Redemption
God’s grace changes everything

10. It will all work out in the end
Future Hope
It will all work out in the end

11. The Purpose of the Bible:
Is to tell us the story of God’s Interaction with the world so we can find our place in it.