Comments on: In The Study: Three Stories

By: Just for Quix

Just for Quix — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:47:44 +0000

Excellent.

I like to think of that defining moment of the realization of Grace as, “I’m Good Enough. I’m Smart Enough. But Gosh Darn It, God Loves Me Anyway!”

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By: ChestertonianRambler

ChestertonianRambler — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:33:37 +0000

I’ve found that a similar approach is useful in talking to people of other religions. It feels weird to have a sentence or a concept when God gave us thousands of complicated pages of inspired revelation, though.

By: Three Stories « Sister Seers

Three Stories « Sister Seers — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:49:47 +0000

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By: Pastor M

Pastor M — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:11:43 +0000

#1 sure seems “to sell well” around the suburban area where I live. I saw a quote by Earl Creps the other day that went like this, Jesus didn’t come to make our life better; he came to be our life. Unfortunately, I know too many people who fall for #2 and others who have been hurt by it. #3 is really so amazing, as John Newton put it.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:00:47 +0000

You should write a book, Michael. You should write a book. You could plug it in the sidebar, set up a paypal account to accept credit card orders. I’m just saying it’s good stuff, that’s all.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:55:57 +0000

This is such a good post.

I teach a diverse group of students (grades 6&7). From September to December, we learned nothing but Luke’s Lost Things. It was the Grace Story from every angle we could manage. We did drama, crafts, games with fragile balloon sheep, and chocolate coin hunts. We looked at the art (thank you Henri Nouwen), we mulled hypotheticals, and by the end, when I talked about God’s people, they nodded with the confidence that I was talking about them.

I do this because I’m battling the other stories you’ve fleshed out so well.

Thanks for the refining material.

By: John H

John H — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:53:09 +0000

Great stuff. In relation to the “grace story” being about what God has done rather than what we do, the Lutheran seminary professor Dr Norman Nagel apparently coined the phrase, “Who’s driving the verbs”? A question to be asked of our approaches to evangelism, salvation, worship, sanctification, the life of the church……