Maybe more than any other way, humans understand our reality through story. We just spent 31 weeks journeying together through The Story, an abridged version of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. The last 7 weeks, we’ve been working our way through the Parables of Jesus; story was his most preferred method of communicating the Kingdom he was ushering in, to the people of his day. Could it be that we tell stories of heroes as a reflection of the longing in our hearts for the sacrificial love of God himself? The life of Jesus is the fulfillment of the Hero’s Journey, and His desire is for us to allow him to be the hero of our story.
