Some Quotes from #Story09

I attended the Story Conference yesterday, and here are some of my favorite quotes from the day. If you liked this post, don’t hesitate to use one of the Share buttons below!

Ed Young

“The radically rescued should radically rescue.”
“Everyone wants to reach people until you start reaching people.”
“Church work is brutiful.”
“You want to get deep, you begin to rescue. All rescues happen in the deeper water.”

Dave Gibbons

“When there is personal revelation of your weakness, it releases the power of the Holy Spirit.”
“The Lord allows us to go places where we feel cut off from Him so that we can produce a holy seed.”

Chris Seay

“It’s so important that we allow God’s story to intersect our stories.”
“We love the Bible not because it is an object of joy, but because it points us to a relationship with a loving and living God.”
“Too often we read the Scriptures as a set of propositions like it’s someone else’s story.”
“We thrive when we’re on mission, and we whither in anger and dissent and institutionalism.”
“Until we bring the whole gospel to the whole world, we’re missing it.”

John Ortberg

“The invitation of the Bible is to keep dreaming because when we quit dreaming we die.”
“The invitation of Scripture is to quit being obsessed with my little story and to be a part of a bigger story.”
“Die to your own story and make it part of a bigger story.”

Nancy Beach

“The Gospel is a tragedy, it hurts. But it’s also a comedy. It’s got a good ending.”
“There’s a child in each of us even after we have been beaten down, and we persist in knowing that fairy tales happen.”
“Tell your stories as truthfully and as beautifully as you possibly can.”

Stacy Spencer

“Telling your story is not about you trying to tell people about how smart you are, it’s about getting behind Calvary…all you’re supposed to do is tell the story so that people can see Jesus talking through you.”
“Knowing the book is more than necessary, but knowing the God of whom it speaks is more important.”
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“You gotta have a Bible in one hand and an iPhone in the other.”

Mike Foster

“We’re censoring our stories when we only think about our success.”
“If we would just allow our canvas of brokenness to be placed in God’s hand, what a beautiful picture He would create.”
“A chapter of our life is not the end of our life.”

Donald Miller

“A story is a character that wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.”
“What’s meaningful in a narrative is meaningful because it’s meaningful in life, and what is fearful in a narrative is fearful because it’s fearful in life.”
“What’s true in story is true in life.”
“Story has an unbelievable power to engage the human brain.”
“There is something a character has to do to make a good story: the character has to sacrifice something on behalf of others.”
“Success doesn’t necessarily tell a very compelling story. You have to do more than succeed. If you win…you could come to the end of your story and have it be a letdown.”
“A character is not who they feel like they are, who they want to be, or who they wish they were. A character in story…is only what they do.”
“If the protagonist doesn’t want something, the story doesn’t work.”
“Conflict is the only way a character changes in a story.”

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