Conference Notes: God's Story/Our Story

Today I am including some notes from the conference I attended on Tuesday. Ravi Zacharias from RZIM spoke (see link to the right) as well as a couple of his colleagues. One speaker, Stuart McAllister, made some challenging remarks about how to reframe our vision from a Christian worldview. I am going to share some of his comments today.

If we can start thinking of our worldview from Psalm 24:1, “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it…” we can then better define what’s going on.

We then realize we are in God’s story, his narrative, and better yet, we are the main characters.

We realize that we live in a created order and the God we serve is loving, Holy, personal, and good.

We are His fingerprints, recipients of His gracious action again and again.

We recognize He is purposeful and that He is at the heart of this world. We are like him (Imago Dei) but He is above us.

We understand that we live in a disordered realm, and things are now damaged, bent, and twisted. Things left on their own don’t just get better. It’s our job, like tending a garden.

We ultimately come to believe that God has taken the initiative beginning the reconciliation of all things, in and through the personal work of Jesus Christ.

Here are 3 things to consider:

1. The world that is, is not the world that was (Creation to Fall)


2. The world that is, is not the world that must be (Struggling after the Fall)


3. The world that is, is not the world that will be (Redemption – HOPE)

The selling of gloom and doom will not bring an answer for the world’s hard questions about God. Only the engaging of all in God’s story of love through Jesus Christ will we bring about the delivery of hope!