Topic 2 DQ 2

“The Divine Drama” found in Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey
(Encountering Mission) is a common concept found in some other GCU courses. It is a way of looking at the
narrative of Scripture, but the divisions of the drama are fluid. How would you divide the story and why?

Class,

Our textbook, Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey (Encountering
Mission) Splits the acts up into four Acts in the narrative then under a sidebar five and seven Acts. The story
splits it into Act 1: The Creation and the fall, Act 2: Calling a people through Abraham, Act 3: Rescuing and
Separating a people: The Exodus and the Monarchy, and Act 4: Maintaining God’s Holiness: The Exile.

The Sidebar 2.1 Splits it down even further with five acts and then seven acts:

Act 1: Creation (Gen. 1–50) Act 2: The Exodus (Exodus through pre-exilic history, writing, and prophets) Act
3: The Exile (exilic and postexilic history, writing, and prophets) Act 4: Jesus Christ: The Coming of the
Kingdom (Matthew through Jude) Act 5: The Consummation (Revelation). (Moreau, Corwin, & Mcgee, 2015)
(Crossway, 2008)

Act 1: The Creation and the Fall (Gen. 1–11) Act 2: Calling a People through Abraham (Gen. 12–50) Act 3:
Rescuing and Separating a People: The Exodus and the Monarchy (Exodus through pre-exilic history, writing,
and prophets) Act 4: Maintaining God’s Holiness: The Exile (exilic and postexilic history, writing, and
prophets) Act 5: Saving a People: Jesus the Messiah (Matthew through John) Act 6: Gathering a People: The
Church (Acts through Jude) Act 7: Renewing All Creation: The Consummation (Revelation). (Moreau, Corwin,
& Mcgee, 2015) (Crossway, 2008)

All three are correct in my eyes; it just depends on how in-depth do you want to go with this study.
Would I change where the divides are? No, I wouldn’t. If you are doing quick research then the way the
narrative of our textbook writes it out, we will be fine. If, you want to dig deeper into the word then go with the
sidebar notes. As we are all learning to dig into the word of God if we are starting then go with the four acts.
As our knowledge beginning to grow and our abilities to become archeologists of the history of the Bible, then I
think we should start to look at breaking things down even further with having five and seven acts.

Andrew

References

Crossway. (2008). The Study Bible ESV. Wheaton: Crossway.

Moreau, A. S., Corwin, G. R., & Mcgee, G. B. (2015). Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and
Practical Survey, Second Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Publishing.