Life in Christ: Rooted, Woven, and Grafted into God’s Story

Reading and understanding the Bible can be difficult, even for lifelong Christians. Even more so, it is difficult to see how your personal life fits in with the family lineages, narratives, and parables from Christ’s teaching.

Author Rev. Dr. Adam T. Filipek gives you the key to understanding how your life story—yes, your story today—is interwoven with the life of Christ in the Bible. Piece together each of the narratives in the Old and New Testament to see how God has grafted your life onto the beautiful saving life of Christ.

Life in Christ will take you through the Bible chronologically, giving you an important overview of the historical retellings so you can understand the timeline of His Word. See how God is working in your day-to-day through each of the Gospel books. As you piece together how these narrative threads are woven into one big picture, you will also see that the faith and Church are not about the individuals, but rather, it’s forever pointing back to the story of God’s Son and His sacrifice for humanity.

From Chapter 1:

“We must once again see that the faith is not something we simply learn, regurgitate, graduate, and move on from. . . . More profoundly and eloquently stated, the life of a Christian, indeed your life, is firmly rooted and intricately woven into the unified biblical narrative of God’s presence in the person and work of Jesus Christ, into whom you were incorporated by Baptism, with whom you abide each week in the Divine Service, and under whom you and all believers will live at the resurrection.”