Testimonials
THE STORIES MEN TELL
Men’s Story
We live in narrative and we live in story. Existence has a story shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, and we have character.
Our lives are not random events: a sequence of images and emotions without purpose or reason.
- Our lives tell a story, a story with meaning and coherence. This story ultimately makes sense of everything that ever happened or will happen to us.
- Looking at life as a story (specifically a “romantic journey”) gives us a way of seeing that transforms our entire experience of this world (2 Kings 6:17).
Note: By “romantic” I do not mean sentimental, warm feelings, but rather that our hearts yearn to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. We want to move beyond our small world into something gloriously transcendent. - Brent Curtis describes this story as a “Sacred Romance” where God is a “Wild Lover” who passionately desires and wonderfully pursues our hearts.
- This is a larger, transcendent story that the Bible tells us God is writing. It is about our hearts and the heart of God.
- The plot of the story, along with the heart of God, is revealed in Luke 4 when Jesus Christ stands to announce his arrival and what he came to do.