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Stories with Warts: The Ones Jesus Wants Us to Tell

Please tell your clumsy faith Stories, warts and all!  Especially the warts. 

I was just reading in Matthew, where the disciples ask Jesus why he told stories and Jesus said (Message Bible): 

“You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom.  You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there’s no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight.” 

As radio DJs, we all know the benefit to telling stories but I’m not sure we always tell the full story. We leave out the messy parts and the warts.  But the warts are actually the good part. The warts are the dumpster fire that people want to come and watch. 

You have so many clumsy faith stories.  Stories about how you first heard about Jesus.  Stories about people that you met who were like Jesus and many, who were nothing like Jesus.  You’ve got stories about what inspired you to wanna go deeper with God. You’ve got stories about your first attempt at awkward prayer. You’ve got stories about taking one step forward and two steps back.

I’d like to challenge you to take an hour and just brainstorm your spiritual journey. Think of every emotion you might have experienced… Inspiration, disillusionment, excitement, abandonment, fearlessness, fearfulness, pride, humiliation, success, failure, understanding, misunderstanding.  As you think back on your faith journey stories, wherever you find an emotion, pull on that thread.

After an hour, you’ll have a nice list of stories that you can unearth and begin to process for the airwaves, always starting with the listener and then you. 

And as you do, remember, Valerie Geller’s wisdom. Tell the truth, make it matter and never be boring. 

These are the stories Jesus wants us to tell.