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

1. Luke 7:11-17; Jesus raises the son of the widow of Nain

2. Luke 13:10 -17; A woman with a spirit of infirmity

3. Luke 14:1-6; A man with dropsy healed on the Sabbath

4. Luke 17:11-19 Ten lepers cleansed

Exploring and Preserving History Workshop Igniting Faith

Your shout and Feedback

Exploring and Preserving History Workshop Igniting Faith

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?