If you have forgotten the beauty of grace, the goodness of what God created in Genesis 1, or the hope of what He has promised to restore in the coming age of Christ, pick up The Magnificent Story and fall in love with the gospel story again.
Smith explores the stories we carry about God, ourselves, and the gospel and argues that distorted stories can deform Christian life. He invites readers to recover the gospel as a story marked by beauty, goodness, and truth, and to let that story reshape both imagination and spiritual practice.
This book reminded me that Christianity is not only a set of doctrines to affirm. It is a beautiful, good, and true story that changes how we see God, ourselves, the world, and where history is headed. This is the kind of book that invites you to recover wonder.