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Living His Story – Week 6(b) – Our Stories Today
“You mean,” asked Lewis, “that the story of Christ is simply a true myth, a myth that works on us in the same way as the others, but a myth that really happened? In that case, I begin to understand.”
Living His Story – Week 6(a) – Finding Jesus in the Stories of Others
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. Acts 17:23
Living His Story – Week 5(b) – Passing on the Story of Jesus
The first thing we should notice in the stories of Philip and the Ethiopian and Peter and Cornelius is that the Spirit drives the early church towards risk-taking and not comfort-seeking.
Living His Story – Week 5(a) – Passing on the Story of Jesus
Who is it that the Spirit places in our lives that we are to go to? Who is the chance conversation that we may have about Jesus? Who is God-fearer, the spiritual-but-not-religious, or the non-rule-follower, that we are being called to tell our story to?
Living His Story – Week 4(b) – Communicating Like Jesus
We have the example of Jesus’ ultimate vulnerability in the story of the Passion. Jesus cedes control of the situation to the other person so that he may draw them to himself.
Living His Story – Week 4(a) – Communicating Like Jesus
When we begin to look at Jesus’ interactions with others, we discover his interactions are not reducible to a set formula or even a set teaching.
Living His Story – Week 3(b) – Your Story of Transformation
Peter writes that we should always be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks why we place our hope in Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 3:15.
Living His Story – Week 3(a) – Stories of Transformation
All stories share certain traits, but no two stories are eh same. Everyone has a different experience of transformation.
Living His Story – Week 2(b) – the Sower
The Parable of the Sower offers us two ways of considering evangelism.
Living His Story – Week 2(a) – The Initiative of God
Evangelism is theocentric (originating in God) not anthropocentric (originating in the needs of humanity). It is defined, directed, energized, and accomplished through the Trinity and not through us. We have a role to play as simply the messenger or storyteller.
Living His Story – Week 1(b) – Confronting Our Excuses
Evangelism is the act of simply inviting someone to participate in this story of the Risen Christ. Our problem is that we make evangelism too complicated, and like Moses, we create excuses to stay on the sidelines.
Living His Story – Week 1(a) – Introduction
Evangelism is an invitation and a summons to switch stories and therefore to change lives.