Narrative of Grace

I'm more convinced than ever that salvation is a narrative of grace. This explains why testimony convinces more surely than mere proposition. Grace unfolds through the natural rhythms of life, persisting river-like over tranquil pools as well as stoney shoals. "If I ascend to heaven, you are there!  If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!"  To understand transformation, listen to life. We're drawn to story because only in this way are we able to comprehend the effect of the Gospel.  "In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again after each stumble -- because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)