tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post2224161198997493911..comments2023-09-06T10:36:17.025-04:00Comments on Wilderness Fandango: The Gospel is a StoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-74292287832680912792011-07-02T09:48:50.099-04:002011-07-02T09:48:50.099-04:00Dan and Erin, you two are saying about the same th...Dan and Erin, you two are saying about the same thing, methinks. And you're both wonderfully onto something. Wherever Jesus is, his story continues. In and through us. So when Luke says at the beginning of Acts that his earlier account was all about "all that Jesus BEGAN to do and teach," it sort of implies that Acts, the story of the apostles after Jesus ascended, is the story of all that Jesus CONTINUED to do and teach. Through his followers. So his story continues in our stories, or our stories are caught up into his, if we are united to him in spirit. A wonderful truth. And also a truth that I suppose should make us stop and wonder if we really living as if we were confidant that all this is really true.Bob Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06400471363764020869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-77663852656032698052011-07-02T09:13:04.849-04:002011-07-02T09:13:04.849-04:00wow. I was just talking to nate about this a few d...wow. I was just talking to nate about this a few days ago. I realized something cool later that day too: <br />Everyone's vocation (when stripped down) is to be a story-teller. <br />We're all to continually retell the Jesus' story over and over....the means by which we go about doing that will probably look different for everyone.... But isn't that cool?Erin Hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04367012373432461819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-17145177129795136072011-07-01T16:40:19.295-04:002011-07-01T16:40:19.295-04:00Love this. Thanks.Love this. Thanks.Lore Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03330994106636188873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-81896177709934437072011-07-01T09:22:17.277-04:002011-07-01T09:22:17.277-04:00"Now there are also many other things that Je..."Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written." <br />—John 21:25<br /><br />I don't think this is mere hyperbole on the part of John. I think that story gets written and added to whenever someone comes to Christ. Your story and my story get written into the ongoing story of the Gospel and how it changes lives and builds an imperishable Kingdom.<br /><br />For that reason, your story and mine matter. "He told me everything I've ever done" are not just the magnetic words of the woman at the well; they can be ours in our own form. "He saved me from a life of purposelessness" or "He restored my broken family" are just as much the words of the Gospel story as the words of the woman at the well, even if those are our stories today and not the words of someone in Palestine AD 31.<br /><br />That's the beauty of the Gospel story. Those are the words that fill the books that threaten to overwhelm the world with wonder.dlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02475467561892290120noreply@blogger.com