Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

The main message of the Bible is not here are some practical tools that can fix your life.

It is the story of His love for you.

What you hold in your hands is not a book of commands or heroes.

It's the worlds and universe's greatest love letter.

Have you ever read it that way?

Have you ever read it as God's statement of love, his love letters to you?

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vidovich, and I'm so glad that you're with us

today. Okay, so when you pick up a Bible, did you know that you're actually holding 66 individual

books written by more than 30 authors over a span of thousands of years? And yet, miraculously,

it all tells one story.

That's the subject of a new teaching series we are kicking off today on Summit Life, titled The Whole Story.

Over the next few months, we are going to go from the beginnings in Genesis to the

conclusion of the story in the book of Revelation, hitting most of the major events in

between.

But before we get to Genesis,

Pastor Jody is kicking off this study with a quick stop in the book of Psalms. He titled

this message, The World's Greatest Love Letter. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible,

176 verses. It is a love poem about the Bible itself. We do not know who the author

of this poem is. Our best guess is Ezra, who wrote the book of Ezra in the Old Testament,

but I hope that you see that it is significant. Listen, that the longest love poem in the Bible

is not about marriage, it's not about children, it's not about mountain, it's not about sunsets, or good health. It's about the Bible. It's not about marriage. It's not about children. It's not about mountains. It's not about sunsets or good health. It's about the Bible. Because the author

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