The Second Order Story of life are the stories we choose to live into from today into our future. It is the story that honestly reveals our faith. Our faith will say who we "really" are to the world and to ourselves. So the excuses we use so often such as, "I don't know why I do that, because that's not really who I am" makes no sense when we do those things! Our sin nature should not be what reveals us, but rather the story we choose to live into that God has designed for us!
In part 2 of this series we seek to understand the first order story. We all have one. If you are here thought to listen to this lesson you really need to hear "The Epic Story" first. In life there are those of us who just give up on ever becoming the best version of what we know we can be. That is usually because our first order story dictates that perception. This first story is your unique fingerprint! It is your life story from this point in your life moving backward to your past. These are the events that have molded your life through experience whether good or bad. Those experiences were both from choices you made and included things that happened to you that were beyond your control. You cannot change this past portion of your first-order story as it is your past. So if we understand and own that, even the worst version of us, can become the best version of us! The version God intended for us to be!
Have you ever wondered why at times the Bible seems so difficult to follow? In essence it is a compilation of different stories, perspectives and experiences all of which are labeled by Christians as inspired by God. While we believe that it is, there has to be a better explanation to the purpose of these events. In this series we are going to begin to work through these texts to understand that all of these stories combined are elements of the one true story of God in history! If you hang in there with us, your life could be changed dramatically as, maybe for the first time, you see God at work, answer those nagging questions and understand where your story is included!