The overarching story of God in the Bible is one of redemption. God is mending what is broken, finding what was lost, embracing the unloved, and bringing life to parched land. The whole story is one where God is really bringing the whole world back into right relationship with himself. It is a love story where we soon find that we are characters in the surprising and unfolding narrative. We have a part to play. In reading and engaging the story of God, we are brought to a point, a crux, where we have to wonder, “Am I participating in the redemption of this world, too? Or am I just an observer
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