{"id":11547,"date":"2024-02-26T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/stories-work-from-the-bible-tells-me-so\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:48:54","slug":"stories-work-from-the-bible-tells-me-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/stories-work-from-the-bible-tells-me-so\/","title":{"rendered":"stories work-(from The Bible Tells Me So)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ForTheBibleTellsMeSo.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6070\" src=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ForTheBibleTellsMeSo-196x300.jpeg\" alt=\"ForTheBibleTellsMeSo\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a>Stories work. Stories are powerful. Stories move us deeply, more so than statistics, news reports, or textbooks. We all know that. We only need to think about what holds our attention and makes us long for more\u2014that book, film, or TV series that we wish wouldn\u2019t end quite so soon, that story told of some deep, personal, transforming experience, whether painful or joyous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bible, then, is a grand\u00a0story. It\u00a0meets us and then invites us to follow and join a world outside of our own, and lets us see ourselves and God differently in the process. Maybe that\u2019s really the bottom line. The biblical story meets us where we are to disarm us and change how we look at ourselves\u2014and God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bible calls that change repentance. Maybe stories are where repentance can happen best. From what I can see, I think the Bible\u2019s storytellers would agree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"ext-link\" style=\"color: #0066cc;\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062272020\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062272020&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=inspirandinca-20&amp;linkId=U45HGB4NKK3R4L7Y\" rel=\"external nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\">The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=inspirandinca-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0062272020\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/>, p. 129<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thebiblefornormalpeople.com\/stories-work-from-the-bible-tells-me-so\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stories-work-from-the-bible-tells-me-so\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories work. Stories are powerful. Stories move us deeply, more so than statistics, news reports, or textbooks. We all know that. We only need to think about what holds our attention and makes us long for more\u2014that book, film, or TV series that we wish wouldn\u2019t end quite so soon, that story told of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}