Narratives form who we are and how we live. There are all kinds of narratives at work in our world. Even in the lives of those of us who call ourselves Christian. Some of those Christian narratives are based on poor theology or bad interpretation of Scripture. And from my vantage point I see lots of harm this is doing to the witness of Christ we have in the world. The reality is that people in the world are drawn to Christ but don't like the church! And that reality is keeping people from coming to Christ because they don't want to be part of a church like that! In some ways you could say we have copied the copy too many times. (You know what happens when you copy a copy and then copy that copy and so on... the quality of the copy gets worse and worse!) It is time to get back to the original.
So, a great way to do that is... by asking a question of the narratives that we live out. The question..."Is this understanding of God consistent with the God Jesus revealed?" That will force us to investigate. To read the Bible ourselves and notice for ourselves the God Jesus reveals.
Our witness would be so much stronger if we would all learn to do that!
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