Our current cultural moment lends itself to highly narrated identities. What is a highly narrated identity? It’s a self-conception that is shaped, curated, and reinforced through continuous personal storytelling. Essentially, you’re the author. Scripture confronts this thinking and invites to embrace a new author and new identity, one beyond your ability to manufacture.

Cloud of Witnesses
Cor Chmieleski
Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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Throughout the Gospels, Jesus consistently overturns people’s expectations and reshapes their understanding of who God is and what He is doing. He flips the script by working in unexpected places, changing lives, and transforming the world through a group of the most unlikely people. In the most surprising act of all, he dies and rises again—so that now through the good news of the gospel, he can rewrite any story.

Cloud of Witnesses
Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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This passage is filled with perils, promises, and planks. The bible often uses narrative to communicate spiritual realities. In this story, a ship is destroyed and those unable to swim cling to wood planks eventually arriving safely ashore. Isn’t that our spiritual story—awash in sin and death until a wooden plank in the form of a cross surfaces and saves us?

Acts: The Story Continues
Cor Chmieleski
Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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