Tell Your Story

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd. . . . “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.”

—Acts 2:14, 32

In one of my favorite Tyler James songs, he says “my life’s not a story about me.” My life is not a story about me. And your life’s not a story about you. My life is a story about who God is and what he does in a human heart. My story is about the people on my street, the things I read, the way we raise our child, the things I’ve done and the things that have been done to me. A story is never about one person. It has a full cast of characters, connected by blood or love or jealousy.

Tell your story. Don’t allow the story of God, the sacred, transforming story of what God does in a human heart, to become flat and lifeless. It always goes back to the beginning, no matter how far we’ve wandered off course. When Christ walked among us, he entrusted the gospel to plain old regular people who were absolutely not religious professionals. If you have been transformed by the grace of God, then you have within you all you need to write your manifesto, your poem, your song, your battle cry, your love letter to a beautiful and broken world.