Exploring Stories
Saturday Friday 23rd June 2012
Presented by Mark Sturge
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith
Objective
• Provoke you to participate in the process
Three points
1. Our stories must be credible
2. We must ensure that our presence and contributions are
recorded and acknowledged
3. No one can tell your story like you can – So be aware of
your lenses.
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith
Ensuring our stories are credible
• Examples from personal reflection
• The challenge is for our contribution to have:
1. Credibility in relation to scripture
2. Credibility of leadership
3. Credibility in Christian disciplines
• This is not an invitation to sandpaper or gloss over reality
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith
Value your presence and contribution
• Example from personal reflection
• Key Questions
1. What is our rightful place?
2. Who should speak for us?
3. How do we get our main actors to participate and be
recognised?
4. When history is written, “What should the record show about
our contribution?”
• The process should enable you to create new templates
to fill the gaps
• How do you ensure your presence and contribution are
recorded
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith
No one can tell your story like you can
• Our lenses are the tools and vantage points with which
God has blessed us.
• Luke as an expert witness
• Does Luke’s ethnicity has anything to do with his point of
view and approach?
• Exploring Luke’s approach
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3.
4.
Luke 7:11-17; Jesus raises the son of the widow of Nain
Luke 13:10 -17; A woman with a spirit of infirmity
Luke 14:1-6; A man with dropsy healed on the Sabbath
Luke 17:11-19 Ten lepers cleansed
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith
Your shout and Feedback
1. How do you ensure that
your Church/Organisation
stories are credible?
2. What steps would you
take to ensure that your
presence and
contributions are recorded
and acknowledged?
3. What unique lenses do
you think you can bring to
the history of Christian
faith and life in Britain?
Exploring and Preserving History Workshop
Igniting Faith