{"id":7810,"date":"2019-01-08T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T04:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2019-01-08T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T04:05:08","slug":"tell-me-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Evans-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Evans-12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Evans-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Evans-12-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So when someone asks, &#8220;What is the gospel?&#8221; the best response is, &#8220;Let me tell you a story.&#8221;  You might start with Abraham, Isaiah, or Luke.  You might start with the Samaritan woman at the well.  You might start with a story about your grandmother or a rural church camp or a dining room table surrounded by Woody&#8217;s chairs.  At some point, you will get to Jesus, and Jesus will change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a story in Matthew&#8217;s and Mark&#8217;s gospels about a woman who anoints Jesus with a jar of costly perfume in prophetic anticipation of his impending arrest and crucifixion.  When the disciples harass her for what they see as a waste of resources, Jesus defends the woman, declaring, &#8220;Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her&#8221; (Mark 14:9).  His response suggests that preaching the gospel means telling stories about the <em>life<\/em> of Jesus, not simply his death and resurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a>,<\/em> p. 151-152<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 7, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when someone asks, &#8220;What is the gospel?&#8221; the best response is, &#8220;Let me tell you a story.&#8221; You might start with Abraham, Isaiah, or Luke. You might start with the Samaritan woman at the well. You might start with a story about your grandmother or a rural church camp or a dining room table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}