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The Story of His Glory
Abstract
T he Bible is basically a story about God. When we turn to the Bible as a self-help book, we end up bored or frustrated with what seems to be a rambling collection of stories. What if the Bible is more about God than it is about us? How thrilling to discover that every ele-ment of scripture—the reports of events, the verses of dis-tilled wisdom, the lyrical prophecies—converge in one cen-tral saga of one worthy Person. We're used to the idea that the Bible is a true story. It's so true that the story is still unfolding to this minute. We are used to hearing that the Bible is a love story. But we tend to see only one side of the love: how God loves people. If the main point of the Bible is that God is to be loved with heart, soul, mind and strength, perhaps it would be wise to read the entire story from God's point of view. When we look at it all from God's viewpoint, the grand love story finally makes sense: God is not just loving people. He is transforming them to become people who can fully love Him. God is drawing people as worshipers to offer freely to Him their love-inspired glory. God can be loved only when He is known. That's why the story of the Bible is the story of God revealing Himself in or-der to draw to Himself obedient worship, or glory, from the nations. With God's passionate love at the core, the Bible is truly the story of His glory. BASIC CONCEPTS OF GLORY To trace the story of God as the Bible presents it, we need a grasp of three related ideas which define the story at every juncture: glory, the name of God and worship. Glory Don't be thrown off by the religious-sounding word "glory." Glory is the relational beauty that every person's heart yearns to behold and even to enter. The word "glory" in scripture refers to the essential worth, beauty and value of people, created things and, of course, the Creator Himself. The Hebrew word for glory is a word meaning weight, sub-stance, and at the same time, brilliance or radiant beauty. To glorify someone is to recognize their intrinsic worth and beauty, and to speak of that feature in a public way. To glo-rify God is to praise or to speak of Him openly and truth-S t e v e n C .
... Israel was not chosen because of any goodness of their own, but to fulfill God's purpose. 17 Writing on Exodus, in particular, Hawthorne believes that "God did more for his name than Abraham's early worship". To him, "God went global in a big way at the Exodus. ...
... Thus Joseph became Prime Minister in Egypt, governing the affairs of men in Egypt and the world over with the fear of God (Gen45:7-8; 47: 13-26; 50: 19-20).As noted in the introductory part of this article on the patriarchs, considering the contribution of Moses to the early development of the Jewish sacred literature which formed bases for subsequent religious inspirations, there is a constraint to conclude the narrative on the patriarchs with the story of Moses.When He was about starting His public life, as the Lord of the new era of God's covenant people here on earth, Jesus made people understand the place of Moses and his work in God's programme with humanity (cf. Matt 5:[17][18][19]. In James' narrative with respect to the outcome of St. Paul's missionary style, he disclosed that "Moses of old time hath in every city that preached him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day" (Acts 15:21). In Paul's missionary letters, and preaching's, he often quoted Moses and his works. ...
This paper examines the intersection between religion,
electoral choices and democratic culture in Nigeria using the
2011gubernatorial election in Imo state, southeast Nigeria as
a case study. It investigates how religious sectarianism and
political misconceptions could be factors or employed as
factors in shaping continuity and change in electoral choices
and outcomes in the Imo political landscape. The main
argument of the paper is to posit that because of the
emergence of religious sectarianism, in particular, the rivalry
between the Catholics and the Neo-Pentecostals represented
by the Anglicans in Imo politics in general, future electoral
choices in the state would be predicated on the formation of
preferences for candidates and parties. This conclusion is
based on the following: (1) Candidates may attract support
for who they are, or what they have done, or what they might
do, rather than simply because of the party to which they
belong; (2) granted that Christianity is the general base, the
denomination or sect of the candidates and extent of their
association with the Church. The consequence of the latter is that politicians would seek to develop relationship with the clergy and Church. While this may be functional in the short term, it may turn out unhealthy at the long run as the Church
may be gradually stuck into state politics.
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