Too boring. Too Religious. Too long.

Perhaps you have similar reasons for not reading the Bible... but The Story is different.

The Bible is filled with stories of love, war, birth, death and miracles. There's poetry, culture, history and theology. It's a suspenseful novel, a book of sociology, a historical lesson - all woven around one external conflict: good versus evil. This Story offers a glimpse of people in a different time and place who are yet very much like us today. The Story opens a door to a truth that can be found nowhere else. A door for which every person is searching. A door that leads to freedom, hope and God himself!

The Story is the actual, God-breathed words of the Bible. Each chapter was thoughtfully and carefully excerpted and then placed in chronological order. The texts were chosen to retain the overall flow of the narrative, so that when you read this story, you get a sense of the "big picture" of the Bible. The goal of The Story is to make the Bible read smoothly and easily, so that you can read it just like you would read a novel. But the story you're reading is now an ordinary story. You are reading a story that has the power to change who you are, what you think and how you view life. You are exposing yourself to deep, transforming truth. As a church community at Maple Ridge, our hope is to come together during this weekly series and experience the Bible like never before and to understand where our own place exists in the incredible Story of God.

Boring and irrelevant? Not a chance.