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So we're in part two of this series titled The Bible for grownups.

And the reason I wanted to do the series and the reason I'm so glad that you're here and that you're watching or that you tuned in is because while most people, Christians, non-Christians, people, even from other religions,

while most people know some of or parts of some Bible stories, most people do not know the story of the Bible.

In fact, one of the reasons it has been so easy for you to dismiss the Bible, for some of you the reason it was so easy for you to dismiss Christianity or to walk away from your childhood faith,

is because while people told you Bible stories as you were growing up, nobody ever sat down and explained to you the story of the Bible.

And part of the reason they didn't tell you the story of the Bible as a child is because you wouldn't be interested.

And the other reason people didn't tell you the story of the Bible is because in many instances the people that handed you your first Bible did not know the story of the Bible themselves.

But this is a really big deal. It's a really big deal in our culture. It's a really big deal in your life. It's a really big deal for Christians. And it's maybe even a bigger deal if you grew up in the faith and walked away from the faith because understanding how we got this is as it's almost as important as what is in this because the backstory sheds light on the story.

Now part of the challenge really for all of us, for all of us regardless of what kind of home you grew up in, Christian non-Christian, part of the challenge is that the way we got our personal Bibles is very different from the way we got the Bible.

By the time I got my Bible it was chaptered and versed and mapped and wrapped. It was all put together. The Jewish scriptures were in here, the Christian scriptures were in here. They were foot noted.

These cool maps in the back. And mine was wrapped as I told you last time in genuine fake artificial red leather with my name printed on it and what color?

Gold, that's right because that's what they did. Now the interesting thing is if you, if I were to serve, if we could serve everybody and I gave you a three by five card and those if you were watching from home or you're listening wherever you are.

And I said, hey, would you write down on three by five cards where you think the Bible came from? We would probably get as many answers as there are people listening and people watching.

And there are all kinds of crazy, I mean crazy ideas about where the Bible came from. And again, if you don't know the story of how the Bible came to be, it's just so much easier to dismiss everything inside of it.

So just to kind of get us started, okay, Jesus did not write it. In fact, Jesus didn't write any of it. But here is the new information really for most people, especially if you've walked away from faith or you grew up in faith but didn't know the story of the Bible.

Jesus didn't write it, but Jesus is the reason that we have it. Our story begins, the story of the Bible begins not in Genesis.

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