The Story Lives: Leading a Missional Revolution by Henriët Schapelhouman

The Story Lives: Leading a Missional Revolution by Henriët Schapelhouman

Henriët Schapelhouman has written a book which will help enable every Christian to use their story as part of the great story of Jesus Christ. She says that your story is very important. The Bible is a story – a story of God and His people. Since we are people, we are called to share that story. Schapelhouman challenges every Christian to look at how each of us is living out (and thus telling) our own story.

She challenges whether our stories are flavorful (salty enough that they would give everyone a thirst for Jesus Christ). She also clearly shows how an individual Christian’s story is set inside the church’s story. Is the church being the church – full of people who want to share their personal stories of Christ – or are we just doing church?

She uses new buzzwords like living relational, missional and incarnational. What she means is that we are to live our Christian life by showing the love of Christ. It is love in action. Schapelhouman shows how Jesus Christ lived out His story while He was on Earth and continues to live His story through each and every one of us.

As a pastor, I was instructed in personal and church evangelism. Evangelism is the idea that we share the story of Jesus Christ with others who need Him. We share the story as a church (church evangelism) and as individuals (personal evangelism.) This book does not lay out a type of “plan of salvation.” This book does not teach how to share Jesus Christ objectively – with propositional truths which come from the Bible. Instead, the author encourages a subjective approach – using my personal story. If you want to learn the whats, whys, and hows of sharing your personal faith story, then this book is for you. It is theologically sound, with a strong biblical basis, without all of the preachiness of other books.

Below is an interview with Schapelhouman. I found this book an enjoyable read and I believe you will too.

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