Self-Publishing Handbook Ebook

Self-Publishing Handbook
This can be easily achieved without any of our
modern-day gadgets. But, first there must be the
scribe and each family has got one. That is how
God structured families to create lasting legacies.
By building the present upon the history of those
that came before us through genealogy.
This we see in the story of our Lord Jesus Christ
as narrated by Matthew in his book of the same
title in the new testament. He makes sure that as
we read his account of the birth, life, death and
resurrection of Jesus, we see the connection with
everything that has gone before. Better still,
Matthew tells the story in such a way that not only
is everything previous to us completed in Jesus; we
are completed in Jesus. Every-day we wake up in
the middle of something that is already going on,
that has been going on for a long time: genealogy,
history, culture and the cosmos-God. His account
makes us aware that we are neither accidental or
incidental to the story. We get a full background of
the genealogy and history of Jesus that make sense
of our lives, family, work and history.
The role of the scribe is three-fold. First to put
the collected information in writing, then put it in
harmony to make sense to the recipients, and
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