There Is More The Story

This past Sunday we continued our series on reading the Bible with a familiar story: David and Goliath.

Most of us know the story.

David. Goliath. Five stones. A sling. A giant falls.

But what if there’s more to the story?

One of the challenges of reading biblical narrative is that we naturally want to turn every story into a lesson, principle, or list of things we should do. But narrative often works differently. Sometimes the details we focus on aren’t actually the point.

So we introduced a simple Narrative Blueprint—five questions that can help us slow down and enter the story more faithfully:

• Who is the narrator favoring?
• What bigger story does this scene sit inside?
• What is being reported versus commanded?
• What patterns have we seen elsewhere in Scripture?
• Where is the story ultimately pointing?

As we walked through these questions together, one of the Bible's most familiar stories began to unfold in a fresh way. We discovered that David and Goliath may be inviting us to ask a deeper question than simply: "What's your giant?"

Because David himself tells us the theological center of the story: “The battle is the Lord’s.”

The Bible is full of stories we may have heard our entire lives—and there is still more to see.

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Have a great week!