“When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“Youth are natural-born storytellers. Our task in discipleship training is to steer them into a particular storytelling tradition—that is, the narrative, language,… — Sarah Arthur Christian faith Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, church leadership too often capitulates to youthful and parental pressure that would make confirmation as fluffy, fun, and noncommittal as possible.” — Sarah Arthur Leadership 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-story works. It works in all the ways that story itself works: in offering transcendence, identity, intimacy, timelessness, wonder, and so… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“We sought those experiences only story can provide, experiences that our crazy college days could never give us: timelessness, transcendence, intimacy, identity,… — Sarah Arthur Experiences 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“The hunt for the “moral of the story” ultimately strips the story of its essential tone, which means it runs the danger… — Sarah Arthur Moral of the story Copy Share Image
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we… — Sarah Arthur Broken hearted Copy Share Image
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“...we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into… — Sarah Arthur Longing Copy Share Image
“In short, you can’t have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying… — Sarah Arthur Balanced life Copy Share Image
“To use C. S. Lewis’s distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it’s about truth; for the… — Sarah Arthur Truth Copy Share Image
“The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a… — Sarah Arthur Logic Copy Share Image
“...God sent His Prince, Jesus, into rebel territory to conquer evil and free us to be true citizens of the Kingdom again...… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is… — Sarah Arthur Meaning Copy Share Image
“like story itself, worship works: it offers experiences of transcendence and timelessness, resonance and wonder, intimacy and identity, mystery and enchantment.” — Sarah Arthur Spirituality Copy Share Image
“vital role of the imagination in spiritual formation is to help a young person make meaningful connections between the church, the world,… — Sarah Arthur Imagination Copy Share Image
“From ancient times discipleship training has involved learning the biblical narrative and theological language of the Christian community:” — Sarah Arthur Christian community Copy Share Image
“Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it… — Sarah Arthur Happiness Copy Share Image
“from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in… — Sarah Arthur Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we… — Sarah Arthur Next generation 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 Bible Copy Share Image
“If we want the next generation to know where they came from and thus who they are, we tell them stories so… — Sarah Arthur Next generation Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the… — Sarah Arthur Christian life Copy Share Image
“The cure for competing narratives is nothing more or less than the Apostles’ Creed. Yes, I’ll say that again: the creed is… — Sarah Arthur Storytelling 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“Part of the magic of the imagination is that it can conjure something out of nothing except the simple medium of words… — 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 Christian community Copy Share Image
“writes Madeleine L’Engle, “in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we… — Sarah Arthur Self conscious 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“If their imaginations are starved, you feed them; if they are thirsty, you give them something to drink. Trust the Spirit to… — Sarah Arthur Nurturing Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected… — Sarah Arthur Faith Copy Share Image
“Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“if there is no light by which we see, no Great Story that illumines our days—and no Storyteller—then we have no source… — Sarah Arthur Light Copy Share Image
“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the… — Sarah Arthur Story Copy Share Image
“Religious language,” write the authors of Soul Searching, “is like any other language: to learn how to speak it, one needs first… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“It’s easy for our young people to think of the biblical stories as taking place long, long ago and far, far away,… — Sarah Arthur History Copy Share Image
“When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and… — Sarah Arthur Prayer Copy Share Image
