Check Out
More Info
Archives
All About Personal Redemptive Stories on the Web
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
INTRODUCTION
The allure of stories.
( fyi, that's not me in the picture. just thought it was a good illustration. )
“Daddy, could you pleeeeease tell me a story?!” asks Avery, our oldest daughter. She asks this quite often, and I usually oblige. Not only does she love children’s books, but she’s also thrilled when I simply “make up” a fairy tale, adventure or ongoing saga with Avery and her siblings as the central characters. Recently Avery even has started drafting her own stories – using color crayons and having her parents take dictation to capture the narration that accompanies each picture. Check out Avery’s first published “book” – Adventure on Blackberry Mountain.
We all can relate to my daughter’s obsession with story time. Who doesn’t enjoy being drawn in to a classic book or movie? Why do we find ourselves lost in a good story? Because stories are powerful. Nothing connects to our heart quite like a story.
What's the greatest story ever told? It's The Story of God pursuing and loving an undeserving lot. It's a marvelous story of redemption.
Ultimately, redemptive stories shed light on God’s Story worked out in the lives of people throughout history. My ultimate goal through this blog – as we examine personal redemptive stories on the web – is to catch a glimpse of His Grand Story and take a few steps back and contemplate the Author. Deeper admiration and satisfaction with Him is the ultimate “happy-ever-after” ending of all stories of all time.
Here’s a brief overview of the general topics I hope to address here:
1. Understanding Redemption in Our Personal Stories
2. Describing The Story through our Stories
3. Resources on the Web for Communicating Redemptive Stories
Well, here goes. . .
Comments:
<< Home
Does it just have to be god or can it be gods for these stories??
or can it be redemption through an interpersonal relationship, like a former alcoholic father making amends and becoming an importnt role in his grandchild's life??
or can it be redemption through an interpersonal relationship, like a former alcoholic father making amends and becoming an importnt role in his grandchild's life??
Good questions. I hope to unpack and explore this whole concept of personal redemptive stories - specifically these types of stories on the web - through my posts to this blog.
Your mention of an alcoholic father making amends and restoring important relationships is definitely a good example. It sounds like some level of redemption is going on in this story.
Yet, you have presented a broader question to explore:
What do personal redemptive stories have to do with God?
My thoughts: In view of all history, the greatest Redemptive Story ever told is the story told in the Bible. In essence, the Bible is the story of God and man. It tells how God has pursued a relationship with man from the beginning and describes the plot of this relationship. There's definitely a good bit of conflict in the story as man has repeatedly rebelled against God and gone his own way. Unless He had not personally entered our story to sacrificially rescue us from our own despair and rebellious misery, there could be no ultimate redemption.
An interactive presentation of the bibical story of redemption is online at Life@Large: http://www.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/students/lifatlg.swf
Post a Comment
Your mention of an alcoholic father making amends and restoring important relationships is definitely a good example. It sounds like some level of redemption is going on in this story.
Yet, you have presented a broader question to explore:
What do personal redemptive stories have to do with God?
My thoughts: In view of all history, the greatest Redemptive Story ever told is the story told in the Bible. In essence, the Bible is the story of God and man. It tells how God has pursued a relationship with man from the beginning and describes the plot of this relationship. There's definitely a good bit of conflict in the story as man has repeatedly rebelled against God and gone his own way. Unless He had not personally entered our story to sacrificially rescue us from our own despair and rebellious misery, there could be no ultimate redemption.
An interactive presentation of the bibical story of redemption is online at Life@Large: http://www.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/students/lifatlg.swf
<< Home
