Welcome to the One Great Story!

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George B. Thompson. Welcome to the One Great Story!

Welcome to the One Great Story!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Once Upon a Time

The Story Begins

The Story Builds

The Story Shifts

The Story Peaks and Falters

The Story Claimed as the People Worship

The Story Begins to Echo

The Story Revived Through Jesus

The Story Spreads

One Story, Many Audiences

Backwards and Forwards

The Story Continues—

Bibliography

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Tracing the Biblical Narrative from Genesis to Revelation

George B. Thompson Jr.

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It is within the energy of The One Great Story that we can discover how it still speaks.

We are about to follow a Story that is long and involved! It includes many generations, many characters, a long list of locations, episodes, and developments—not to mention those storytellers and editors who preserved and interpreted various parts of it all along the way. What might not be apparent at first glance is that the most present and dependable of all the characters is not one of the many persons whom you might expect—not Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Ruth, David, Elijah, Isaiah, or Mary. Rather, it is God—a God who initiates things, who responds to what people are doing, who will shift action in order to maintain an overall purpose, and who never gives up.

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