This is the Narrative Analysis I use to understand the gospel stories. It’s not perfect and it doesn’t work on every passage, but it does help you slow down and think about what’s really happening. Give it a try!
- Isolate the Literary Unit
- Identify the Setting and Characters
- Observe the Story
- Are there key words or phrases or repeated ideas? Are there cause and effect relationships stated? What illustrations are used if any? Note all of these things.
- Isolate the Different Scenes
- Analyze the Narrative:
- Identify the (Rising) Conflict
- Identify the Climax
- Identify the Resolution
- Identify the Following Action/Interpretation
- Think about the Context
- immediate literary context
- whole Gospel context (narrative flow and structure; intra- and intertextuality)
- redemptive-historical context
- Write a Brief Summary Paragraph
Write a summary paragraph to get at the main thrust of the story’s point(s), understood in context, and addressing what this teaches us about God and ourselves. Use the two key ideas of Revelation and Identification – what is revealed about God in Christ and how we are to identify with this as disciples of Christ.
Brian McLaren believes he’s doing Christianity a favor by creating a “New Kind of Christianity.” His most recent book “A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions that are transforming the faith” in which he attempts to reinvent the faith. If you don’t have any background on Brian McLaren he’s worth being aware of because he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Just listen to this interview
I have not read the book so I cant say much about it, but I did want to post this panel discussion from Southern Seminary including Albert Mohler, Jr., Moderator, Jim Hamilton, Bruce Ware, Stephen Wellum, and Gregory Wills.
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Randy Alcorn on Money and God
21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable a to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that b everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable a to judgment
Jesus, by his own authority, insists that the judgement thought to be reserved for the murderer now looms over the head of the angry and wrathful.
what man stands uncondemned ?
Although there is a place for anger toward injustice and sin, most of my anger comes from a bruised personal ego
After Conan amassed a twitter cult following of over 600,000 tweeple , he decided to follow one person. Her life will never be the same.
Only team Coco could do this.
I know this is a few months old, (which is an eternity on the interwebs) but i felt like posting it on my blog
Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina planned to burn books by Christian authors that distort the truth. Guess the first book on their burn list…. The Bible. Amazing Grace Baptist church is an Independent Baptist church that only follows the KJV and all other versions are “satanic.”
I put this on here for fun because local law enforcement……. eh, enforced the law and the church was unable to obtain a burning permit, so they resorted to this.
A few things to notice.
The first thing he destroys is the NKJV THEN a Tim Lahey book. I would have totally started with Lehay.
They also have to start playing music a few minutes in…. Give it a more “gospelesque” feeling.
On a fairly random note, they distroy a ZZ Top album
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Drama of Scripture, The: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
it (the bible) functions as the authoritative Word of God for us when it becomes the one basic story through which we understand our own experience and thought, and the foundation upon which we base our decisions and our actions.
In other words, the Bible provides us with the basic story that we need in order to understand our world and to live in it as God’s people. We know that it is one thing to confess the Bible to be the Word of God, but often quite another thing to know how to read the Bible in a way that lets it influence the whole of our lives.