Stories & Spirituality
Of course, of course. We go to the church, we listen to a man on the podium that tells us from this story there are five bullet points on how to 'live a christian life'. We say that the five little stones that David threw mean five things like faith, trust, love, etc., etc.
God never said anything like that. He just gave us a bunch of stories in the OT about His pursuit of man and then there is the the NT which is Jesus' expression on that in human form. So, why do we need to break down 'Christianity' into bullet points?
If your life was a story, was is the chief conflict? Who is would be the protagonist in your life story? What shape or form would the plot direction take? Would it be a tragedy? A comedy? Would there be a twist? an anti-climax? Or, if it were a movie, would it be a blockbuster? a Hollywood spin-off just like every other movie and every other person? An reflective art-house? How would it change or elucidate to viewers things about our christian life like love and god and stuff? Would it be a classic that would get told down the line because of its impact?
Because what we learn from the good book is because all these take place in the stories we got handed down in the bible. We know of God through stories we are told, so how about knowing and telling about God now through our stories we can share?
Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching For God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts and To Own A Dragon, speaks here at Imago Dei of his insights into these things while editing and working through McKee's stuff (of the movie Adaptation).
Stories by Don Miller.
God never said anything like that. He just gave us a bunch of stories in the OT about His pursuit of man and then there is the the NT which is Jesus' expression on that in human form. So, why do we need to break down 'Christianity' into bullet points?
If your life was a story, was is the chief conflict? Who is would be the protagonist in your life story? What shape or form would the plot direction take? Would it be a tragedy? A comedy? Would there be a twist? an anti-climax? Or, if it were a movie, would it be a blockbuster? a Hollywood spin-off just like every other movie and every other person? An reflective art-house? How would it change or elucidate to viewers things about our christian life like love and god and stuff? Would it be a classic that would get told down the line because of its impact?
Because what we learn from the good book is because all these take place in the stories we got handed down in the bible. We know of God through stories we are told, so how about knowing and telling about God now through our stories we can share?
Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching For God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts and To Own A Dragon, speaks here at Imago Dei of his insights into these things while editing and working through McKee's stuff (of the movie Adaptation).
Stories by Don Miller.
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