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If we are going to help people and communities move toward telios (maturity), we need to take the time to reflect on the sacred story, a storytelling that brings life to the soul. As Anderson and Reese in Spiritual Mentoring say, "It seems that the church has sometimes lost its love of stories and substituted instead a love of ideas."
Alan Jones in his book, Passion for Pilgrimage says, "We need a song to sing, a story to tell, a dance to dance so that we know where we are and who we are. But we seem to have lost the art of storytelling and dreaming. Singing bits and pieces of what we know and telling snatches of half-remembered stories is better than nothing. The more we sing and tell the old, old story the less we shall be satisfied with psychological and spiritual junk food, with false and temporary means of embodiment.... There is an overall theme played in the heart of God. We have to listen to that tune and share in the larger drama if we are to make sense of our own."
Keywords: calling, community, embodying, emerging church, missional church, sacred text, walk with God
