The Big Picture Story of the Bible

Justin Taylor summarizes Graeme Goldsworthy's broad outline of the biblical storyline: The Pattern of the Kingdom: “God’s People, in God’s Place, Under God’s Rule.

1. The pattern of the kingdom is established in the Garden of Eden.
2. This pattern is broken when sin enters in.
3. The pattern is reestablished in salvation history in Israel but never fully realized.
4. The same pattern shapes the prophetic view of the future kingdom.
5. The pattern of the kingdom is perfectly established in Jesus in a repre­sentative way.
6. The pattern of the kingdom begins to be formed in the people of God through the gospel.
7. The pattern of the kingdom is consummated at Christ’s return.