Saturday, July 30

The power of the gospel story

Once we have heard the gospel story, we are not allowed to stay the same. The gospel story judges our story and finds it wanting. It is a judgment we are invited to accept or reject. If we accept it, then we choose, like characters in a story, to change the plot of our lives. In so doing we do not give up who we are; we become more of who we are, that is, more of who we were always meant to be.

— Daniel Taylor
"Story-shaped Faith" in The Power of Words and the Wonder of God, ed. John Piper & Justin Taylor
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2009), 116