The nine stories in this collection originated as sermons in Amory, Mississippi. There were seventeen in all, before the congregation had enough and asked me not to do that anymore, but to return to the old comfortable way of telling them what they had already heard, and fully expected to always hear, as a confirmation of all they hoped to be so.
The fact that Jesus told stories and never said anything about doctrine, theology, creeds or catechisms did not deter them in their quest for these things. And so it was that I was led to other ways of shaking up the Just So world of my congregations in Amory and Batesville in Mississippi, and at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro, North Carolina, and introducing them as I was able to a world waiting for them to live the life that they alone were capable of living, in redeeming, atoning for and transforming their world as those “thus come” to be “the way, the truth and the life” in their time and place as Jesus was in his.
My success rate in achieving that outcome was probably the same as Jesus’ was.
However that may be, here are nine stories for your consideration.
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These are beautiful stories, I have loved every single one of them which I have read so far. You were clearly on to something by telling stories to your congregation- the hidden message in these can go directly to the center of being- bypassing the thinking mind. It is subtle and powerful at the same time! They are sweet, funny and touching, like something delicious that we can only taste/ experience when the ingredients and the recipe are just right! You should share and write more of these!!!
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On many of your posts, several of my comments disappeared a few times before (on your published works site). Trying with this comment again here!!
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