“Mama – tell me a story about when you were a little girl.” Or “Mama – tell me about the day I was born.” 

Every mom and every parent has heard some version of this question. Children love stories – about animals and children and kings and princesses and monsters - and especially stories about themselves and their parents. 

We are story-telling creatures. For thousands of years, even before writing was invented, humans told stories. Stories about how the world began, about how it will end. Stories about the gods who must mysteriously control the rain, and the sunrise, and the plants that sprouted out of the ground. Stories about themselves – their tribe, their people, their origins, their purpose.

All of us have a big story – a meta-narrative – some vision of reality and our place in it that we implicitly live by – the frame on which we weave together the disparate facts of our lives, of history, of science, of pain and loss and joy and love. We weave all of this together into a story – either consciously or unconsciously. If all our facts and perceptions are right and true and good, we get a good story – a story that “works” – a story that meshes well with reality. The more of our facts and perceptions that are mistaken, or false, or painful – the less well our story will “work.” We will find ourselves getting nasty surprises and unexpected outcomes when our assumptions about the story we are living in turn out to be false.

This week we begin a new 6-part series, based on Tim Keller’s book “The Reason for God.” We will look at some of the big questions that many people ask as they are trying to understand the big story they are living in, their story, and how both of those stories mesh and make sense.

“What Story Are You Living In?”

I hope you’ll join us this weekend as I introduce this series that our teaching team will share, look at the big question of “Can there really be just one true religion?” and end with the good, true story God tells through his son Jesus.