He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World by R. Albert Mohler

Author:R. Albert Mohler [Mohler, R. Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Ministry, Pastoral Resources, Preaching
ISBN: 9780802454898
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Amazon: 0802454895
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Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2008-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

A GRAND STORY THAT EXPLAINS ALL OTHER STORIES

That is why Christianity comes as such a threat to so many people, for the Christian story is a metanarrative—a grand story that explains all other stories, and to which all other stories must answer. As Christians, we actually claim that we are possessed by the one story to which all other stories are accountable. Thus when we share the Christian gospel with someone, we say, “Yes, I want to hear your story. But more important, I want your story to be absorbed within a different, larger story. I want to place your story—your petite histoire— into the sweeping metanarrative of what God is doing in the world, so that you might know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and thus know where you are and who you are in a whole different way.”

When we preach, we must remember that what we proclaim is not just a little story, and not just a series of little stories. It is the big picture. We are accountable to the big story of God’s work as it is narrated in Scripture.

In Luke 24, the resurrected Jesus introduces two of His disciples to Scripture’s grand narrative. In other words, he imposes a metanarrative:

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with

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