- Awakening longing
- Goes with the grain of the culture
- It's how we learn
- 75% of the Bible is story, narrative.
- It appeals to heart rather than head; story is a person's 'heart language'
- We learn how our story intersects with the story we're reading, and the story we're part of.
- Story-lessons can sneak up on us
- Stories are concrete, not abstract. A lot of people have problems with abstract; I don't know anyone who has problems with the concrete.
- Stories (esp. parables) are capable of moulding themselves in multiple ways to our stories; they are fractal in that sense, universal and local
- They are personal, under the skin, where we really are at.
- Engaging in beauty is engaging in the Kingdom
Notes:
Jesus taught, awaken longings, scatter seed, wait and see what happens
This is exactly what he did
Every myth is 'a splintered fragment of the true light' (Tolkien to C S Lewis, reportedly)
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