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The journey rather than
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We can journey through life either as storymakers or as listmakers,
using the same ordinary stuff that makes up our lives in very different ways.
Listmakers, as the name suggests, use the stuff of life to make lists—to do lists, to have lists, to achieve lists, and so on. While a useful and sometimes even necessary way to live, the dangers for listmakers include legalism, hypocrisy and a greater concern for progress than the process of living. Storymakers are people who choose to live their life as a story, as an unfolding plot that inexorably moves towards resolution and its ending. Storymakers focus on the process of living in the now rather than on making progress by accomplishing predetermined goals. The journey rather than the destination is what matters most. They embrace the ambiguity and mystery and subjectivity of story, living the questions that can’t now be answered.
Christian storymakers immerse themselves in the Grand Story of Scripture, a story of creation, chaos and redemption, in order to live a life narrated by this Grand Story.
Because I desire to be a storymaker and help others live this way, I have called the work I do StorymakerLife. My purpose is to facilitate Christian spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus through a variety of practices. These include Storymakers, a discipline of reading the Bible together for all its worth; spiritual direction, a discipline of telling and listening to one’s personal sacred tale; retreats, an opportunity to pull away from distractions and be attentive to God and self; and also prayer pilgrimage as a way of praying for and in the local church.
Christian storymakers immerse themselves in the Grand Story of Scripture, a story of creation, chaos and redemption, in order to live a life narrated by this Grand Story.
Because I desire to be a storymaker and help others live this way, I have called the work I do StorymakerLife. My purpose is to facilitate Christian spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus through a variety of practices. These include Storymakers, a discipline of reading the Bible together for all its worth; spiritual direction, a discipline of telling and listening to one’s personal sacred tale; retreats, an opportunity to pull away from distractions and be attentive to God and self; and also prayer pilgrimage as a way of praying for and in the local church.
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JOURNEY TO JESUS is a 100-day devotional and thoughtful journey through the Gospel of Mark, bringing head and heart together in wholesight. The slow pace of the journey through Mark gives readers time for deep reflection on the Jesus Mark reveals and the response required from them today. The journey with Mark is sometimes enlightening, sometimes trying; always challenging, always worthwhile. An amazing Gospel and a wonder-filled devotional journey. It is available at:
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