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Hey, we're wrapping up this series today called the Bible for grown-ups and I've been so excited about planning for this series and I'm so excited to kind of land the plane today.

And the reason we did this and we've said this every week is that most of us grew up knowing or hearing Bible stories.

If you grew up in church, you grew up with Bible stories. Even if you didn't grow up in church, you've heard some Bible stories.

In fact, some of you grew up in church and heard the Bible stories and then as you got older, you walked away from the Bible because the stories just didn't add up.

They just didn't make sense anymore. They didn't connect with real life. They didn't connect with science. They didn't connect with what you learned in a university or graduate school setting.

And the problem for many of us is even though we know a lot of Bible stories, most people don't know the story of the Bible.

And the big challenge for us, and this is what we've talked about in these weeks together, is that the way that you received your Bible and the way we got our Bibles is not the way the world got the Bible.

And the story or really the journey of how this book came to be is almost as important as what's in the book itself.

We said on week one that the story of this book actually doesn't begin in Genesis. The story of this book begins on Easter.

The story of the Bible, the reason we have the Bible is because Jesus followers discovered that his tomb was empty.

And they assumed initially that someone had stolen the body. Nobody assumed a resurrection.

But later that same day, the women and his closest male followers saw Jesus. And suddenly there were Jesus sightings all around Jerusalem, the very city in which he had been arrested and tried.

And eventually crucified. But when it was discovered that Jesus had risen from the dead, suddenly there was interest in the life of Jesus.

And Luke, a first century doctor as we saw in week one, Luke said that many people, many people actually set out to give a documented account or to account for the life of Jesus.

And then there were four documents that had include the life of Jesus that made it through antiquity that we have today, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and week one we talked about these four documents.

And then as the story continues, we discovered that before long Gentiles, non-Jewish people outside the area of Judea and Galilee began to embrace the message of Jesus.

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