God's Story: From A to Z

We are insiders to the story of Scripture. It is our story.
We have to learn to read the Bible as a whole. It is one story.
We have to allow the Word to absorb the world and not the world to absorb the Word.
We have to take embrace the presuppositions found in God's Word, rather than imposing another worldview on our reading of Scripture.
We must learn to read the Bible organically, in terms of itself.
We should read the Bible the same way Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmond would read The Chronicles of Narnia: as a story not only for us, but about us.

God's Story:

1. The God who made everything
2. The God who does not wipe out rebels
3. The God who writes his own agreements
4. The God who legislates
5. The God who reigns
6. The God who makes his people sing
7. The God who is unfathomably wise
8. The God who is coming
9. The God who becomes a human being
10. The God who grants new birth
11. The God who loves
12. The God who dies--and lives
13. The God who declares the guilty just
14. The God who gathers and transforms his people
15. The God who is very angry
16. The God who triumphs

Disclaimer: It is one thing to know the storyline of Scripture, it is quite another to know one's role within the ongoing story of God's redemption of creation. It is quite another thing to trust and obey the claims of the gospel.

(These points were taken from D.A. Carson's book The Gagging of God.)