Story of God (Continued)

I shared a while back that we would be starting a new sermon series entitled The Story of God. The series would attempt to provide a narrative overview from end of the Bible to the other, helping our folks see the consistency of God's work and to help them place into context the Biblical stories they already know.

One of the elements to the series that I have been looking forward to is that a couple of our staff members would be taking turns with the teaching. This past Sunday night, our children's minister David Harper spoke on the life of Joseph.

Covering Joseph in one message is no easy task, but David did a great job. For me the strongest section was hwhen e challenged us to find ourselves in the story, but he confessed that he had far more in common with the brothers than he did with Joseph.

The brothers, he pointed out, were

1) most likely to fear the worst in a situation

2) shackled by guilt of their past

but they were

1) forgiven instead of blamed

2) and incredibly they were invited to dine at the master's table, even though the master knew the very worst about them!

Oh, what grace. I couldn't have said it better myself.