Get Your Pretense On!

CHAPTER 1 The Greatest Story in theWord: Seeing Things as They Really Are

This book is about you learning how to act like the person that God says you are, even though you don’t feel like it, and the situation you find yourself in seems to contradict it. Understanding who you are in Christ and living in a manner that corresponds to it – what in this book I am calling “getting your pretense on” – demands that you begin to take your cues for how you should live from what you know about the Story of God, given in Scripture. That Story, the truest and most final story of all, has a lot to do with fantastical and epic stories itself. It demands that you see things differently to understand yourself and what life is about. Interestingly, the Story of God in the Bible is just like a fairy tale, or a comic book story. What!? Am I kidding? What in the world does the biblical Story of God’s love in Christ have in common with comic book adventures, hero journeys, or fairy tales? Okay, sure. On the one hand, God’s Story and comics have very little at all to do with each other. Comics and fairy stories are fictions, the product of an author’s imagination, laying

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