Trajectories: Luke and Acts as a Road Map of the Bible's Story and a Guide to the Spirit-filled Future
N.T. Wright's understanding of Scripture as a 5 Act drama is a helpful way of viewing both the continuity and discontinuity within the Bible's narratives as well as seeing our own lives belonging within the history of God and his people. Wright's Acts are 1) Creation 2) Fall 3) Israel 4) Jesus and 5) Church. Jesus is seen as the climax of the grand narrative and we live in the continuation of Act 5. What follows is a modest proposal for using Luke and Acts as a road map for the Bible and it's connection to our lives. It makes sense to view Luke and Acts as volumes 1 and 2 of a two part work that function in many ways as a bridge between the Old and the New. It ties together many strands from Israel's Scriptures (the Torah, the Prophets and Writings) and points the way forward as a guide to the trajectory of the New Testament. We can also envision ourselves in the story as the action moves forward into the Spirit-filled future where we live. Toge...