The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

by James Bryan Smith

Overview

We are story-making people. We love reading stories—and we love hearing the personal stories of others. We need stories, or narratives, to make sense of our world. And those stories shape our lives. What is the story you have been told about the gospel? About God? About the Christian life? About Jesus? About the cross? About yourself? About heaven? Your answers to these questions will form a story that will determine how your life will go. The answers reveal your ability to trust, to love, to hope—and even your capacity for joy. Any story worth giving the power to shape our lives must pass a simple test: is it beautiful, good, and true? If it is, then it is a Magnificent Story—and that is where transformation takes place. From James Bryan Smith, author of the bestselling book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830889280
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	08/07/2017
Series:	Apprentice Resources
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

James Bryan Smith is the author of The Good and Beautiful God and the Apprentice series. He earned his MDiv at Yale and his DMin at Fuller and is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. He also serves as the director of the Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation at Friends University.

A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovaré, Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches. Smith is also the editor of A Spiritual Formation Workbook, Devotional Classics (with Richard Foster), Embracing the Love of God, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, and Room of Marvels.

Table of Contents

How to Get the Most Out of This Book
1. Longing for a Magnificent Story
Soul Training Exercise: Beauty
2. Falling for Shrunken Stories
Soul Training Exercise: Goodness
3. Participating in the Trinity
Soul Training Exercise: Truth
4. Bathing in Beauty
Soul Training Exercise: Sight
5. Embracing Our Goodness
Soul Training Exercise: Sound
6. Discovering the Truth
Soul Training Exercise: Smell
7. Destroying Sin, Abandonment, and Death
Soul Training Exercise: Touch
8. Making All Things New
Soul Training Exercise: Taste
9. Living in the Magnificent Way
Soul Training Exercise: Celebration
Acknowledgments
Study Guide
Notes