As I read through each chapter in the EPIC reader, I’m looking for a single thought that I find most impacts my life. With each chapter I’ll share that thought and what it means to me. Feel free to share your thoughts on the chapter.
Chapter 1: Prologue
This one thought was the key for me this week:
“We won’t begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves.”
Understanding THE STORY has brought absolute context to my life. Although not every little moment has come into crystal-clear focus, understanding that my life falls into some larger thing going on, and that moments of my life are just that – moments – not everything- has brought great comfort.
In the EPIC Prologue we talked about story, and how life – our life and the life of those around us – is best interpreted through the lens of a story. In fact, understanding the fullness of the gospel story – of God’s story – takes on a broader, more powerful look and feel if I step away from what I know and experience, and ask “what is going on in this ‘larger story’ God is telling?”
Take Away Questions: Consider the stories you love. Your favorite books, movies, plays. What about that story interests you so? Is there a character with whom you identify? Ask God to reveal to you why that story means so much to you. What does that story reveal about what my desires are? What parts of that story borrow from your story God?
NOTE: This post is a follow up to a small group we’re leading. This goes with our first official week into the EPIC series by John Eldredge, where we talked about story as a whole and watched John introduce the idea of life being best interpreted through the lens of story.
