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"Here is the most important verse in the Bible about new creation: 'Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!' (2 Corinthians 5:17). Christian men and women are to live a life that moves beyond the fall, beyond the battle of wills. If new creation does anything, it unleashes the power to undo the fall in our world. I cannot emphasize this enough: the story of the Bible is the story of new creation in Christ" (189).

This is a excerpt from Scot McKnight's The Blue Parakeet, a book that I have been reading through over the past few weeks. McKnight's whole point is to try and show readers a new way of viewing the Bible (which, he suggests, is not really new at all). In this method of reading, we see the Bible for what it is - the story of God. In reading the Bible as Story, we are able to see an account that moves from oneness (creation) to brokenness (fall), and back towards oneness in Christ that will be fully realized in the eschaton. With this understanding as our interpretive lens, we can see the Bible for what it is - not a puzzle or book of laws, but as an account of what God is doing in history and how he has spoken to various people in various times and places. Indeed, God still speaks to us today (as McKnight would say) in our days and our ways. So, let's accept the invitation to be wrapped up in this story.