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WHOLENESS: unframing the story of restoration

September 16, 2009

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We are two weeks in on our conversation to explore the STORY OF RESTORATION in Scripture.  Taking the Biblical Story in it’s entirety gives us this overall sense that life is more than an escape routine from potential damnation - but life is truly meant to recapture what we’ve been made for.  What have we been made for?  What has all of creation been made for?  WHOLENESS.  A connectedness to each other, the earth, and to God that isn’t jacked—that isn’t perpetuating a deep and devastating wreckage.

So, if our life is a story (and it is).

Do we or don’t we tie our life into a Grand Narrative?  Why? or Why not?

If we believe in a Big Story that speaks to meaning, purpose, and existence - how is it not simply a way to manipulate power? How is it not simply a mocking our current world, in it’s tragedy, violence, sickness, poverty, and death? How is it not a perpetuation of ‘the american dream’? Can it exist in the realm of “real life” rather than “theory?”