The deepest convictions of our heart are formed by stories and reside there in the images and emotions of story. . . .<\/p>\n
Life is not a list of propositions, it is a series of dramatic scenes.\u00c2\u00a0 As Eugene Peterson said, “We live in narrative, we live in story.\u00c2\u00a0 Existence has a story shape to it.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, we have characters.”\u00c2\u00a0 Story is the language of the heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Our souls speak not in the naked facts of mathematics or the abstract propositions of systematic theology; they speak the images and emotions of story.\u00c2\u00a0 Contrast your enthusiasm for studying a textbook with the offer to go to a movie, read a novel, or listen to the stories of someone else’s life.\u00c2\u00a0 Elie Wiesel suggests that “God created man because he loves stories.”\u00c2\u00a0 So if we’re going to find the answer to the riddle of the earth — and of our own existence — we’ll find it in story.<\/p>\n
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