Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, friends, welcome back to the Year in

the Bible podcast. My name is Beth, and I am here with my co-host, Alexa. Hey, everyone. This is our final day of

week one, the prep week of Christ and all of Scripture. Today, we're going to be talking about

one more tool that's going to help you as you journey through this year seeing Jesus on every

page of the Bible. The final tool is the metanarrative of Scripture. The metanarrative is the

overarching story of the Bible.

The Bible is made up of many stories, but they all work together to tell one big story,

and that is the meta-narrative. This narrative is typically broken down into four parts,

creation, fall, redemption, restoration. Today, we're going to be walking through each of those four parts,

beginning with creation. So take us away, Alexa. Yeah, there is so much that we could say

about creation, but to keep it brief, creation is the truth that God created a world that was good,

where God, humans, and animals all lived together in harmony.

And the relationship between God and his creation, and in particular us, was God's original

design. We were meant to be in an intimate relationship with God, where we worshipped him

joyfully and completely, and we experienced freedom and life in him.

And we were meant to delight in the world that God created, representing who God is in the

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