Four Tips for Better Biblical Storytelling
In telling the biblical story, we don’t need people to glean from our wisdom. They must encounter the living God.
In telling the biblical story, we don’t need people to glean from our wisdom. They must encounter the living God.
Anytime anyone tells the story of God there’s a lot more going on than is visible to the naked eye.
The biblical story, told in the power of the Spirit, is always charged with supernatural substance.
Our common mistake is not so much taking God out of the story as much as we make him a passive object instead of the active subject.
The Holy Spirit works with this Word-shaped memory to kindle in us a mystical imagination capable of gospel improvisation.
This core dynamic of Christian discipleship consists in the crisis and process of learning to be “strong in the Lord and in his mighty power,” who is the Holy Spirit.
Apostles solve problems by finding people full of the Spirit and wisdom, commissioning them for work, and letting them loose.
God chooses the unlikely to accomplish the impossible; the unconventional to overcome the invincible.
The gospel offends all power structures, for it produces a people who cannot be controlled by any power save the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
If the suffering of Christians designs to convey any particular message, it is this: holy love takes the long view.
Anytime a group of believers lives in the true awe of God the surrounding community will watch in wonder.
With every lie we tell ourselves, it makes the next one easier, until we have literally become lost to the truth.