The following sections on the church, theology, worship, spiritual formation, and the believer’s life in the world are all tied to the biblical story. Thus their first section is entitled ‘On the Primacy of Biblical Narrative.’ Getting this straight is the crucial starting point. The pressing question is: who gets to narrate the world?” They believe, and rightly so, that if the Christian church is to be faithful in the midst of competing stories, this question must be answered unequivocally in terms of the biblical narrative: The Bible tells the true story of the world. After affirming the authority of Scripture and noting the myriad of global challenges facing the evangelical church at the beginning of the 21st century, they say: “Today, as in the ancient era, the Church is confronted by a host of master narratives that contradict and compete with the gospel. It was a summons to growing faithfulness to the gospel in the midst of huge threats. A few years ago Bob Weber and Phil Kenyon issued a passionate and clarion call to the evangelical community.
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