Christian faith is practically inconceivable without a particular story: The story of Jesus Christ stands at the center of the whole biblical story for us; and we tell those old stories over and over because we find there the key to our own stories. In them we even find ourselves confronted by the judgment and mercy of God, bearing for us a promise of who we are and where we’re headed and ways we might live out the new life offered us in Christ.

In the summer ahead at Christikon, the theme of story-telling will help to shape our life together; and we hope it will offer ways to tell the biblical stories and our own as part of the same story. When we read the biblical stories and tell our own stories, it’s more than a matter of narrating history. It’s telling HisStory, because we’re convinced that finally the story of Jesus Christ is the story of God and the story of us all.