story

When the credits roll, will people shrug and think my story was kind of boring? Will they think your story was great, one that inspired their own? How might we intentionally write a great story into our lives?

If you write a story about your life and it winds up selling over a million copies, you just might have two guys show up at your front door wanting to make a movie out it. Such was the case with Donald Miller.

As a young girl, I knew nothing of the story of this song when I sang it in church. And the songwriter, at the time of writing, had no idea of this song’s future impact.

In my corner of the world, it seems to be testimony time. For the past year, my church has recorded and broadcast short vignettes from members, telling "their story" of life with Christ. Each one focuses on a different aspect of their journey. Some tell of their salvation, some of how knowing Jesus helps them through a struggle, others share how they've changed since trusting Him. They are all fabulous. The most recent story featured my friend Susie. You can watch it here:

Like Ben the baker in the children’s video series about the first century Christians, “The Story Keepers,” we live out of our stories as a part of keeping His Story alive. Using the delivery of fresh bread to the citizens of Jerusalem as an opportunity to keep Jesus’ story alive, Ben’s family absorbed into their family children whose parents were impacted by Roman persecution of the early church.

Having lived in another culture and experienced the frustration of not knowing “the rules” the following email story got my attention this week.

“I had always felt life first as a story; and if there is a story there is a story teller.”
G. K. Chesterton’s story intersected and impacted the story of C.S. Lewis, two Englishman
living at the turn of the 20th century.