Scripture: One Book at a Time
The whole of Sacred Scripture is a single narrative that promises and points to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of the World. It is an epic story, the greatest ever told, and told "one book at a time." Each book makes it contribution to the narrative as God reveals God's self to us and his desire that all be saved.
Lesson 49 – The Gospel of Matthew (Part 1)
The position of the Gospel according to Matthew as the first of the four gospels in the New Testament reflects both an older view that it was the first to be written and the esteem in which it was held by the early church. No other gospel was so frequently quoted in the non-canonical literature of earliest Christianity. Matthew presents his story of Jesus, the demands of Christian discipleship, and the breaking-in of the new and final age through the ministry but particularly through the death and resurrection of Jesus. In Part 1 of this study, we consider the first half of the Gospel of Matthew.