““There are bad stories and good stories, bad spells and good spells. The gospel, as we’ve already said, is the “good spell.” It enchants even as it invites, confronts, and repels. Sure, the biblical narratives are given to us as texts; but they are also mysteriously more than texts. The trick is not imposing our theological agendas onto what that “more” means, but instead being faithful to telling the story as a story in whatever medium we are given or gifted, while trusting the Holy Spirit “to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine” (Eph. 3:20).””
