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<i>If it is strange to hear a story for a sermon, it is strange because the church has missed one important fact about the Bible: the Bible has more stories than anything else. It is God's idea from the beginning that the bulk of the Bible is narrative. If over the centuries Christians have become used to sermons being a string of assertions, explanations, or exhortations (with a sprinkling of stories as illustrations), the sermons have not been preached in a manner consistent with how the Bible communicates reality. Most of the Bible is stories.</i> <p><i>Story sermons do today what Jesus did in his stories -- they sneak up on people. Listeners can ward off moral exhortations, and they become resistant to three points, a poem, and a prayer. Intellectually they can parry with information doled out in a series of reasoned arguments. But stories win us over before we understand what is going on. Stories quietly tip the scale of our minds toward agreeing with God's graciousness.</i></p> <p>(from the Introduction)</p> <p><i>In these fine story-sermons believable things happen to believable people, and faith grows -- both theirs and ours.</i></p> <p>David L. Bartlett</p> <p>Lantz Profes

Author

David O. Bales

Publisher

Css Publishing Company, Inc.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780788015847

Subjects

Christian, Literary Fiction, Religion