Slides for my class at the Eastern European Church Leaders Meeting Kiev, Ukraine February 2nd, 2013

1. The Drama of
Scripture
{ February 2nd, 2013 Peti Szabad

5.  Exposition
 Rising Action
 Climax
 Falling Action
 Resolution
 (Epilogue)
Classical Drama

6. Act 1
God Establishes His Kingdom: Creation
Act 2
Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall
Act 3
The King Chooses Israel: Redemption
Initiated
The Drama of Scripture

7.  Act 4
 The Coming of the King: Redemption
Accomplished
 Act 5
 Spreading the News of the King: The
Mission of the Church
 Epilogue
The Return of the King: Redemption
Completed
The Drama of Scripture

8. In the future, when your son asks
you, "What is the meaning of the
stipulations, decrees and laws
the LORD our God has commanded
you?"
Deuteronomy 6

9. Hebrews 11

10. “All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the
dusty recesses of their minds wake
up in the day to find it was vanity,
but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men, for they may act
their dreams with open eyes, to make
it possible.”
T. E. Lawrence

11. Book of Ruth

12. So the two women went on until they came to
Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the
whole town was stirred because of them, and the
women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?" "Don't call
me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because
the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went
away full, but the LORD has brought me back
empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has
afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune
upon me." So Naomi returned from Moab
accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-
in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest
was beginning.
Ruth 1:19-22

13. "The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-
in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness
to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is
our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-
redeemers." Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He
even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they
finish harvesting all my grain.'" Naomi said to Ruth
her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my
daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone
else's field you might be harmed."
Ruth 2:20-22

14. So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then
he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to
conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women
said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this
day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer.
May he become famous throughout Israel! He will
renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For
your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is
better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."
Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and
cared for him. The women living there said, "Naomi
has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the
father of Jesse, the father of David.
Ruth 4:13-17

15. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer
of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who
at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who neither know
victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt