The Most Amazing Story Ever Told

The Most Amazing Story Ever Told

I ndeed, this is where the tales and the Tale hold similar attributes. To be a Christian is to believe that Supermans live in Smallville, shy reporters can be Spidermen, and lowly toads may be shining princes, one kiss away from a new future. To be a disciple of Jesus is to be in the business of kissing frogs and nursing ugly ducklings, for nothing is as it appears to be. In the Story of God, like fairy tales, the stakes are unbelievably high and the conflict is cosmic and uni- versal. God will elect to redeem his creation, purely out of love and grace, and to rescue out of Adam’s line a people who will live forever in a new heavens and new earth which he himself will recreate. Like in a fairy story, he will provide an intervention of grace and love so sufficient that it will take on the evil and chaos that have ruined creation, and with a single act of sacrifice, destroy death and corruption forever. And he will offer this free deliverance to any and all who believe in his Son, the true hero of the Story, whose people will serve him in a Kingdom where God is glorified forever. Have you heard it? Do you know the Story? How can we so encounter this true tale of God’s love and grace in such as way as to be transformed by it forever?

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