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So we're in part three of this series, The Bible for grownups.

And the reason I wanted to do this is most of us know some Bible stories and if you grew up in church, you probably know a lot of Bible stories.

If you didn't grow up in church, you know just enough Bible stories to know that you don't believe the Bible stories, possibly.

Or maybe you grew up in church with the Bible stories and then as you became an adult you thought, wait a minute, that stuff couldn't have happened.

And part of the problem is while many of us know some Bible stories, very few of us know the story of the Bible.

And I'm convinced that knowing the story of the Bible or knowing how we got the Bible is almost as important as knowing what is in the Bible.

Because if you don't know, if you don't know the story of the Bible, it's easy to discount or dismiss the stories that are actually in the Bible.

And one of the things that makes this so challenging for us is the way that we got our Bibles is not the way the world got the Bible.

By the time you got a Bible, if you got a Bible as a child or as an adult, it was all chaptered and versed and mapped and wrapped.

But that's not how the world got the Bible. Jesus didn't write the Bible, but if it weren't for Jesus, there would not be a B-I-B-L-E.

Because the story of the Bible does not begin with Genesis, the story of the Bible actually begins with Jesus. And here's why I say that.

The story of the Bible actually begins in the first century when Jesus' tomb was found empty. And then Jesus was seen.

And his cowardly followers who ran when he was arrested showed up in the streets of Jerusalem and said, he's back.

He's alive from the dead. And thousands of Jewish people in the very area where Jesus was arrested and crucified in the area of Judea, specifically the city of Jerusalem, embraced Jesus as their savior.

And the church launched, the church began. And suddenly, and suddenly something was true that wasn't true before.

Suddenly, there was interest in documenting the life, the words and the works of Jesus. Because if Jesus had stayed dead, we probably would have never heard of Jesus because there would have been no church and no Christianity.

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