You may not know it, but these stories are shaping you.
When you live in a city, you stop noticing the noise. Traffic outside your window, music bleeding through the walls, sirens at all hours—you start tuning it out. But even when you stop noticing it, the city’s noise is still affecting you, shaping your everyday life.
In the same way, we live in a culture that’s constantly telling us stories—stories about who we are, what matters, and how to be happy. Even when we don’t notice them, they’re shaping us. These cultural narratives help us make sense of ourselves and our world. These are the stories we live by, the scripts we inherit, the frameworks we rely on to tell us who we are and how to live.
Making Sense of Us is a 7-week video curriculum that helps young and newer Christians, and even non-Christians, explore key narratives that have shaped Western culture. You’ll see how these stories fall short, and how the one true story of the gospel fulfills our deepest longings.
- Explore key narratives that have shaped Western culture—our stories about self, happiness, science, justice, liberty, and progress.
- See how the gospel answers common cultural longings. Understand why people in our culture find these stories compelling, and learn to share how the gospel speaks a better word.
- Learn on your own or with your church. This 7-week video curriculum is suitable for individuals, groups, or church-wide study.
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Title
Making Sense of Us
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Author(s)
Rebecca McLaughlin, John Starke, Sam Chan, Trevin Wax, Rachel Gilson, Glen Scrivener and Bob Thune
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ISBN
9781956593181
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Publisher
TGC
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Pages
168
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Published
02/25/2026
