“God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ” (2 Cor 5:19). What does this mean? It means that God’s story is cosmic; it has to do with the whole world and all of history. . . . This story even includes you. God, the divine narrator, is saying: I have a purpose for humanity and a purpose for creation and history. I am not asking for permission to join your narrative (although I do); I am asking you to join my narrative of the world, of human existence, and of all history.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 24-25.