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A verse sometimes takes a different lens to really see what is going on inside it. People come to the Bible with their own culture and their own assumptions, and the work is not to strip that away. It is to hand them something that lets them see what the authors were bringing to it. God brought his truth to light through Jewish authors, and Jewish authors write in a specific way that is not how the 21st-century Western world writes.
Most study material opens at chapter one. Read the introduction, read chapter one, answer the questions about chapter one. Verse & Lens seeks to first bring you something you already know and enjoy, because the connection is what makes the text land.
It is working when you can describe what a series is for, when you want to dig further, and when you can hand it to someone else.
The Gospel as a Story
The Gospel as a Story is the first Verse & Lens series. It teaches how a story works before it teaches the gospel.
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