Bible Quotes by Sarah Arthur

9 Bible quotes by Sarah Arthur

Sarah Arthur’s reflections highlight the Bible’s relevance to diverse experiences, advocating compassion and justice. Nine short statements offer an inclusive, empathetic lens.

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“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how…

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“The Bible is alive; it is our students who are dead and must be resurrected. Story stirs the sleeping; scripture raises the…

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“The Bible-as-story works. It works in all the ways that story itself works: in offering transcendence, identity, intimacy, timelessness, wonder, and so…

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“In the end, there is a normative story that we live into as a church: the story God is telling through scripture,…

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“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories…

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“When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to “clarify” what’s happening in a given narrative, to…

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“...God sent His Prince, Jesus, into rebel territory to conquer evil and free us to be true citizens of the Kingdom again...…

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“As we already said, authors receive their ideas from somewhere; and in the case of holy scriptures, that somewhere is the mind…

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“We’ve forgotten how to humbly interact with a story on its own terms; we’ve lost the ability to wonder, especially when it…

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“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,…

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“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…

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“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…

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“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them…

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“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.”

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“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…

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“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that…

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“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16”

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“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell me a…

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“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…

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“While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last…

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“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…

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“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.”

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“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…

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“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…

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