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StoryCorps mission: to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

Are you living the life you imagined? Are you living a good story?

The one ultimate story: God’s quest to save the fallen human race of beings made in His image, and to restore this broken world to its original splendor.

Every person’s story matters, because God’s story of love is being told one life at a time.

• A. THE HUMAN STORY

So, what’s your story? What do you want and what’s keeping you from getting it?

There are two things that keep us from the life we want: sin and death.

That’s the basic human storyline: we want a good, long life, but sin and death keep getting in the way.

• B. THE JESUS STORY

So what did Jesus want?

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

John 10:10

“…for everyone born of God overcomes the

• world. This is the victory that has overcome

the world, even our faith. Who is it that

• vercomes the world? Only the one who

believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”

1 John 5:4–5

What did He have to overcome?

First, He had to overcome sin— everything wrong with the human race and this fallen world.

Then, He had to overcome death. It was the last enemy, the undefeated foe, the end of every human story. Jesus took death on. His lifeless body was laid to rest in a stone-cold

• tomb. Three days later, He blew the door off

that tomb and opened the way to eternal life.

“Where, O death, is your victory? And where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!”

1 Corinthians 15:55–57

“This is the story in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in His Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.”

1 John 5:11–12

• C. THE POWER OF JESUS’ STORY

Jesus is so much greater than the pain and the grief and the disappointment and the failure that this family and what every family experience in this life.

Inflection point: an incident that changes the trajectory of a character’s life.

Life’s Healing Choices thebridgemarkham.com/lifeshealingchoices

Alpha bridgeconnect.ca/alpha