Ebed had music in his heart, but he wanted it in his hands. In it you will find the essence of this book and, without sounding presumptuous, the essence of the Christian faith. On those occasions I want you to read this story again. You may even find yourself wishing that the things I have said were true, but you are afraid to believe them because nothing could be that good! You may think that I have gone off the “deep end” or that I have become a heretic. I suspect that is particularly true when presenting fairly radical ideas.Īs you continue to read this book, you may grow confused and perhaps a little angry.
Or to put it another way, myth sometimes touches a deeper truth in us than philosophy. Some say that parables are closer to truth than polemics and that stories tell more than sermons. It is myth in the deeper sense of the word. The story I am going to tell is true, but its truth is deeper than the story. Fiction is the telling of a story that is not true in a way that makes it seem true. Has turned into mourning.” – Lamentations 5:14-15īefore we go any further in our discussion of freedom and grace I want to tell you a story. “The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
When Being Good Isn’t Good Enough, Thomas Nelson, 1990.
