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ОглавлениеEverybody has a story.
Your story includes the things you have done, the places you have lived your life, the experiences which have made you who you are, the people who have been most important to you.
Your story is not yours alone, but is also part of lots of other stories - the story of your family, your group of friends, your town or village, your church, even your country.
God has a story too. This is the story of God’s loving and creative engagement with the world, which finds its high point in the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. From one perspective, to be a Christian is to be someone who lives their story in the light of God’s story.
Story is an important concept in these Lent reflections. So is witness, which for our purposes is the joyful call to each of us to share our own story of God. So too is evangelism, which is the particular ability God gives to some of us to be able to tell the story of God in a way that stirs faith in those who might not call themselves Christians. All of this will become clearer over the next few weeks.
You have a story to tell, and so do I. Your story is unique, and it is powerful, because it authentic, because it is yours, because it is God’s. So let’s dive in.
