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What's Your Story?

"Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony;'" —Revelation 12:10, 11a Perhaps it is the abundance of unbelievable stories we absorb through movies and other media, but our culture, in many ways, has lost the art of story-telling. Perhaps it is yet another symptom of our "specialist" emphasis. (e.g. If you have a problem with your ears, you go to an E.N.T.; if you need a story you go to an author or movie producer.) Whatever the reason, as a culture we have devalued our individual stories. Several years ago, my parents took a missions trip to Papua New Guinea. One of the things that made an impression on them during their visit was the storytelling culture. Any given person could re