Why did God give us a story instead of a rulebook? And what do you do with a life that hasn't gone the way you hoped? In this prologue to The Story — a 31-week journey through the whole Bible — Pastor Justin Sturgeon looks at the two stories running at the same time in every life. There's the one you can see, at ground level, where the road bends into the trees a hundred feet ahead and you have to choose anyway. And there's the one above it, where God sees the whole thing at once and is weaving it into something good. Job lived in the first one. He lost everything in a single afternoon and never found out why. Neither might you. But Romans 8:28 doesn't promise you'll understand the plot while you're still inside it — it promises there's an author. First Christian Church | The Dalles, Oregon fcctd.com