“Something more is going on with Jesus’ storytelling than clarification or embellishment: he’s out to rock our world.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“let’s get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less “lies.” It’s the world we Christians inhabit as “people of… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“From ancient times discipleship training has involved learning the biblical narrative and theological language of the Christian community:” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Funny how it all turns to theological babble the more we try to identify just exactly what we’re talking about with this… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Adolescents are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“There are bad stories and good stories, bad spells and good spells. The gospel, as we’ve already said, is the “good spell.”… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected by the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we believe it—because… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“There’s nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“if there is no light by which we see, no Great Story that illumines our days—and no Storyteller—then we have no source by which… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell me a… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“If imagination, as we’ve said, is the “region of discovery,” story is the wardrobe door, sending our young people “further in” and “still further… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“In short, you can’t have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying about everything… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than among Christians… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in our lives—before… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
