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I have just started looking at the beginning of Luke with the help of Tannehill. He says some very helpful things though it has to be said that (at the moment) I am just finding my feet in this gospel!

'The reporting of unconnected events does not make a story, for a story is more than a string of incidents. In stories of the traditional kind, events take on meaning because they reveal purposes at work and represent movements towards fulfilment of a major purpose or obstacles which block fulfilment. Luke-Acts has a unified plot because there is a unifying purpose of God behind the events which are narrated, and the mission of Jesus and his witnesses represents that purpose being carried out through human action.' (p2)