The Better Story.

Bobette Buster, story consultant to several major Hollywood studios (Pixar, Disney, Sony Animation etc.) says that, as human beings, “we are narrative [story-telling] animals”.

• How do you see the story of your life? 

• Is it a tragedy, a comedy, a horror story, a fairy tale, an adventure, a mystery, or something else?

 
From the first verse of Genesis to the last word of Revelation, the Bible is full of stories. It all begins in a beautiful garden, then things get messy and violent. There are births and deaths, wars and weddings; empires rise, and the Kingdom comes.

• Is there a story in the Bible which feels like your story? Is there a bible character with whom you particularly identify? 

• Why do you think that is?

 
Here’s another quote from Bobette Buster: “We are entering a new […] age of storytelling, an age of content-creation. That is, whoever owns the best story wins!”

• What is the best, most compelling story about you?

What do you think it means to say that “The story we live in IS the story we live out”?

• Does your story suffer from “the weaponization of misinformation”? (Are there things you have come to believe about yourself that you know trip you up and prevent you from having a truly winning story?)

 
Here is another quote: “Every great story needs a re-creation or a redemption moment.” Think back to the verses we read from Psalm 107. We may not all have as dramatic a redemption moment as the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus (It is so good, the book of Acts tells it three times – in chapters 9, 22 and 26), but we all have some kind of story. 

• Do you have a redemption story to tell?