Get Your Pretense On!

Chapter 1: The Greatest Story in the Word • 33

manner that befits and corresponds to this Story, you are literally being what you were always meant to be!

Our NewVocation: Have You Kissed Any Frogs Lately? As you move through this text, you are going to learn what it means to act consistent with God’s Word, even though its truths are so big and so amazing you’ll feel like it is honestly “too good to be true.” But you need to fight the temptation and never forget, that this Story is true! Still, if you ever find yourself in a fairy story, you ought to kiss as many frogs in it as you can, because, as said before, a frog may actually be a crown prince, turned into a frog through the dark magic of beautiful temptress/wicked witch. To be safe, if you understand the fairy story, you’d better be ready to give a frog a smooch, because you may never know what might emerge from that kiss. To be a Christian is to understand that, soon and very soon, a new world is about to dawn. As active players on God’s stage, we live the rhythm of the divine calendar. The Bible, our Scriptures, tells the account of the canonical story of the Triune God. It is his story, and my story is a part of his grand tale. He created and he promised rescue. He called his people and he sent his Son. He is calling his people to him, and he will recreate the heavens and earth. In the end, we must see this is God’s story, and we are members of his plot, by faith. Here is the wisdom of the ancient Church. They believed this Story with their hearts, in spite of persecution from without and heresy from within. They guarded the Story recorded in Scripture, and summarized it in their Rules of Faith. They recited it in their Apostles’ and Nicene 5 Creeds, and trained their candidates for baptism and leaders within its truths. 6 This Story shaped their lives, for they believed it to be true. And, in agreement with them, we also hold it to be true and to be the Story which gives meaning to the entire universe.