“God’s Stories, Our Stories” Conference on Nov. 6, 7
The Bible is a storybook. Basically, it is a love story between God and humanity; a story of a covenant made, broken, and renewed, again and again. [...] We need to enlarge our grasp of this love story–to learn it more completely, to understand it more deeply, to possess it more personally, and to live it more fully. This is a lifelong task.
This is one of my favorite passages from the book Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People by Episcopal priest and Christian educator John H. Westerhoff. It gets at both how I read the Bible and how I approach Christian formation and education. I think that the stories of the Bible as stories are more important than any propositional statements we can make about them, and are both more compelling and more necessary than any lesson or “moral” we can draw from them.
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