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part 6: telling your story

We’re back! After a few technical difficulties recording – we have Week 6 of our Story series! This is when we start to put the chapters together. If the good news of Jesus is a story that is about reality, and if it is the true story of the whole world – how does it help us make sense of our own stories? Does God really have a part for us to discover and live out? And what does that living – and telling – look like? The Gospel Story [https://trinityforest.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gospel-tell-your-story.pdf]Download [https://trinityforest.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gospel-tell-your-story.pdf]

act 3: redemption

Act III of the Story story brings the good news to the bad news. If Act II was sin and the fall – creating the problem that we are separated from God and all our efforts in creation are bent and broken – then here’s the good news: In Jesus, God comes to the rescue of his people and his creation. Today we see Jesus standing before Pilate in John 18-19 and discover the heart of his mission. The really great news? You can be included by grace through faith.

act two: the fall (“but … the problem”)

In our third week of this series, we come to Act II of the story: the problem. Genesis 3 is the passage of scripture that anchors our understanding of the one big problem, the conflict at the heart of our life and all creation: sin and all its consequences. How did we go wrong? How broad are the effects? What is our fundamental question before a holy God? And is there any good news in the midst of all this bad?

on story: the why, how, and what

We step into something new: The Story. Human beings live by stories – we read, watch, and listen to them and we tell them and pass them around. More than that, we live from stories – we look to them to make sense of our lives and know where we are on the journey we call life. Week 1 starts us out in Acts 14.  At its core, the gospel (“good news”) of Jesus is a story. It is a story where God is the author and the main character. And it is a story about reality – it claims to be the one true story of the whole world. Each of the next four weeks will take one key movement in this big story, making it clear from the Scriptures and showing its power in our ordinary lives. By the end of these six weeks, we hope you discover that you belong in God’s story – and are equipped to live out your part in it!

from hope(less) to hope(full)

This Easter morning, we listen in on a conversation from that first Easter Day … but a little known story, later that day, in the evening, as it was getting dark. Because sometimes hope comes from the most surprising place – when you most need it and least expect it. Let’s listen and learn as Jesus shows us that though we might give up on God, he has not given up on us. And he has given each of us a new starting point for our story in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.