Sacred Roots Workshop

Session 1 Your Kingdom Come: “The Story of God’s Glory” Living under His Reign and Doing Mission in an Unchurched World

The Picture and the Drama

Contrary to the judgment of the churches, the world’s coming of age has not destroyed the primal search for truth which yearns for integrating rather than atomizing vision, nor has it quenched the longing for communion with epic figures in a cosmic drama. . . . Where the Christian churches refuse to provide the picture and the drama, we turn to the culture for substitute myths but find none that really satisfies, and the artist mirrors our dilemma. Without being able to communicate in the language of the apostolic faith, the churches can scarcely hope to evoke and nourish apostolic allegiance to Jesus Christ. [Churches] have suffered a failure of nerve and a failure of vision. They have lost the nerve to speak in the native tongue of symbol and myth, and they have failed to see the mythic life stirring behind the cultural masks of rationalism.

~ Guilford Dudley, III. The Recovery of Christian Myth . Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1967, 2004. pp. 14, 25, 30.

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I. The Significance of Story, the Importance of Myth, and the Kingdom of God

A. Human beings operate according to their interpretive frameworks: Human beings exist as “Walking worldviews.”

1. Every human existence is basically a “story-ordered world.”

2. Myth-making as a primary act of human beings

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