Bible Study starts 5pm Sunday 24th April. All welcome.
The huge banner now hanging in Christ Church Swan Hill, shows how hundreds of Bible stories work as scenes within seven great theme-stories that flow through the whole Bible. The beauty of the 7SoG is that you will see how all the stories fit together. The 7SoG teaches theology the way the Bible teaches it: not via the categories of Systematic Theology, but through networks of stories unfolding, one to the next, patriarchs to the Exodus, Moses to David, Psalmists to Prophets, Exile to Remnant, then finally to Jesus, then to his church, and finally on home!
Do you remember the game, Battleships, in which opponents each place toy ships on their own square plastic grid running from A-J and 1-10 hidden behind a screen? One player calls out a coordinate like ‘B6’, and their opponent looks at the toy ships on their hidden board to discover whether B6 is a ‘Hit’ or a ‘Miss’. The 7SoG works similarly. You can see from the poster that it is a huge rectangular grid. The rows represent the ‘streams’, and the columns represent the ‘eras’. The eras are milestones in biblical history (M1-24), and the seven streams are great story themes that run throughout the entire biblical narrative. (So time runs across the top and seven Bible themes run down the left side.) The artwork at each intersection shows how the individual theme (row) is developed and fulfilled in each biblical era (column). If you think of ‘B6’, you would be saying something like, “At Time B in history, how did God make theme 6 come true?”
The end result is a visual journey through biblical history to find that on every single page of the Bible the Creator, Yahweh God, is gradually restoring a set of rich blessings that were lost in Eden and transforming them into something much greater than anything Adam and Eve could have ever imagined.
Our 7 Streams of Grace Bible Study starts 5 pm Sunday 24th April, and we will meet each Sunday except for Café Church Sundays. The session will last an hour and we will adjourn to a different place to eat each after each session for fellowship and continued discussion. For more information go to: http://www.sevenstreamsofgrace.com/index.html