What has happened to our culture? There was a time when we thought that
we had all the answers, we knew it all, and we knew better. Now we act
as though there are no answers. We wonder whether we can know anything
at all, whether anyone will tell us the truth.
In an age where our sense of possibility has collided with our loss of purpose, So, What’s Your Point? explodes like a bomb, dismantling the notion that we can write our own stories and expect a happy ending. Fran Sciacca wakes us up and invites us into a sweeping story—God’s story—where we discover that there’s a point to each of us: We find our identity, and our purpose, our mission in life in the story God has written for us.
Table of Contents:
PROGLOMENA
Introduction -- Robert and Rehoboam
1. We're in Middle-earth, Dorothy, Not Kansas
2. Pushing Koheleth's Chain
PART ONE: Identity
3. Snakes and Ladders
4. Adamic -- Like Parent, Like Child
5. Adopted -- New Father, New Family
6. Abrahamic -- Who's Who among the Jews?
7. Alien -- Just Visiting This Planet
8. Apprentice -- Spending Time with a Master
9. Ambassador -- The Word of the King
10. Advocate -- A Voice for the Mute
PART TWO: Purpose
11. Plot Hunger -- Our Need to Connect the Dots
12. The Hole Truth Is Not the Whole Truth
13. "Let's Work Our Way Backward"
14. New Eyes, Not Restored Sight
15. Epitaphs -- A Final Bumper Sticker
PART THREE: Mission
16. Plot Anemia -- What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
17. "In The Beginning..."
18. "Intermission" -- The Bible's Missing Page
19. Looking Back to the Future
20. Looking Ahead to the Past
21. Milton Got It -- Why Can't We?
22. The Real World of Warcraft
Endorsements:
"Fran Sciacca is a prophet for our times. He has a keen ability, as an observer of our Christian culture, to bring it to the bar of judgment of God's Word. In So, What's Your Point? he doesn't pull any punches or soft-pedal any issues. At the same time he is not just a critic. He points us in the right direction by bringing us back to God's purpose from the beginning of creation; to make all things new through the redeeming work of His Son."
JERRY BRIDGES, Author and Speaker
"Like a master craftsman, Fran has woven together the elements of God's great redemptive story. So What's Your Point? is clear, concise, and compelling. A great service to the body of Christ, helping us understand our role in the Story."
DANA L. THOMAS, Executive Director, The Forge For Families
In an age where our sense of possibility has collided with our loss of purpose, So, What’s Your Point? explodes like a bomb, dismantling the notion that we can write our own stories and expect a happy ending. Fran Sciacca wakes us up and invites us into a sweeping story—God’s story—where we discover that there’s a point to each of us: We find our identity, and our purpose, our mission in life in the story God has written for us.
Table of Contents:
PROGLOMENA
Introduction -- Robert and Rehoboam
1. We're in Middle-earth, Dorothy, Not Kansas
2. Pushing Koheleth's Chain
PART ONE: Identity
3. Snakes and Ladders
4. Adamic -- Like Parent, Like Child
5. Adopted -- New Father, New Family
6. Abrahamic -- Who's Who among the Jews?
7. Alien -- Just Visiting This Planet
8. Apprentice -- Spending Time with a Master
9. Ambassador -- The Word of the King
10. Advocate -- A Voice for the Mute
PART TWO: Purpose
11. Plot Hunger -- Our Need to Connect the Dots
12. The Hole Truth Is Not the Whole Truth
13. "Let's Work Our Way Backward"
14. New Eyes, Not Restored Sight
15. Epitaphs -- A Final Bumper Sticker
PART THREE: Mission
16. Plot Anemia -- What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
17. "In The Beginning..."
18. "Intermission" -- The Bible's Missing Page
19. Looking Back to the Future
20. Looking Ahead to the Past
21. Milton Got It -- Why Can't We?
22. The Real World of Warcraft
Endorsements:
"Fran Sciacca is a prophet for our times. He has a keen ability, as an observer of our Christian culture, to bring it to the bar of judgment of God's Word. In So, What's Your Point? he doesn't pull any punches or soft-pedal any issues. At the same time he is not just a critic. He points us in the right direction by bringing us back to God's purpose from the beginning of creation; to make all things new through the redeeming work of His Son."
JERRY BRIDGES, Author and Speaker
"Like a master craftsman, Fran has woven together the elements of God's great redemptive story. So What's Your Point? is clear, concise, and compelling. A great service to the body of Christ, helping us understand our role in the Story."
DANA L. THOMAS, Executive Director, The Forge For Families
