

THROUGH THE BIBLE
Even though the Bible is…a collection of books written over hundreds of year with
widely varying contents, it does tell a unified story. The account of creation, the fall,
judgment and redemption culminates with the gospel concerning Jesus Christ, which
the apostles regarded as attested to by all Scripture.
B.B. Warfield:
"No less than sixty-six separate books…from the hands of at least thirty distinct
writers, scattered over a period of some fifteen hundred years, and embrace
specimens of nearly every kind of writing known among men. Histories, codes of law,
ethical maxims, philosophical treatises, discourses, dramas, songs, hymns, epics,
biographies, letters both official and
personal…
Their writers, too, were of like diverse kinds…from the hoary past of Egypt to and
beyond the bright splendor of Rome under
Augustus…
We may look, however, on a still greater wonder…observe the internal character of
the volume, and a most striking unity is found to pervade the whole…The parts are
so linked together that the absence of any one book would introduce confusion and
disorder. The same doctrine is taught from beginning to end…Each book, indeed,
adds something in clearness, definition, or even increment, to what the others
proclaim…"
Michael Horton:
“Americans revere the Bible, but they don’t read it…Today’s teenagers know even
less about the Bible than do adults…Such ignorance is due in part to less emphasis
on Biblical training in the Churches.”
It is the aim of this study to:
1. answer that all important…question – what is the Bible all about?
2. bring your attention to the overarching theme (aka story-line) of the bible as well
as the basic message of Christianity–“the gospel”
3. begin to remove the Biblical illiteracy that plagues us with a book-by-book overview
of the Bible.
Please come and join us for this exciting time of Bible Study. Your heart and your
mind will be renewed and refreshed as we together discover the riches of God’s
truth.
RESOURCES:
New Dictionary of Biblical Theology
According to Plan. Graeme Goldsworthy
God’s Big Picture. Vaughan Roberts
The Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made. Mark Dever
The Message of the New Testament: Promises Kept. Mark Dever
New Life Fellowship Church
John 5:39