N.T. Wright on Telling Stories “The Jesus Way”
- Posted by Steve K. on April 10th, 2009 filed in Mission(s), Writing
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“In our shrunken, over-propositionalized, post-Enlightenment world, it’s taken all the energy of postmodernity, in the last 15 years or so, to say, ‘Hey guys, stories are where it’s at!’ They’re not just for children. They’re for everybody. …
“Jesus’ task in the 1st Century, and our task in the 21st, is … to hear and understand the narratives that our culture characteristically tells itself in order then to be able to tell the story the other way, the Jesus way, the way with Cross and Resurrection in the middle of it, in order to come through and out the other side into the new world that God wants to make.”
—N.T. Wright, from “The Future of the People of God” 2004 lectures, session 1 (starting around 48:38)
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