This past Sunday we continued our series on reading the Bible with a familiar story: David and Goliath.

Most of us know the story.

David. Goliath. Five stones. A sling. A giant falls.

But what if there’s more to the story?

One of the challenges of reading biblical narrative is that we naturally want to turn every story into a lesson, principle, or list of things we should do. But narrative often works differently. Sometimes the details we focus on aren’t actually the point.

So we introduced a simple Narrative Blueprint—five questions that can help us slow down and enter the story more faithfully:

• Who is the narrator favoring?
• What bigger story does this scene sit inside?
• What is being reported versus commanded?
• What patterns have we seen elsewhere in Scripture?
• Where is the  ...