NYWC Big Room 3 - Donald Miller notes

Donald Miller

STORY
Character who wants someting and overcomes conflict to get it

A sense-making device

The best way to teach Anything is thru narrative. The bible is narrative after narative. Not a point by point formula.

Friend telling fishing story. Wait can I ask you something? What do the fish represent? What do I get out of this story?

What if life isn't meaningless? What if just YOUR life is meaningless?

Good story. Imperfect protaganist is key. Good story requires protaganist sacrificing for benefit of another. Success doesn't matter in life. In good story there is connection with sacrificing character. Character is defined by action. What you want is a maningful story.

Character who does not want something meaningful is not a good story. Donald: What are my goals?

- resource the church to father the fatherless

Scarey. Raises conflict. Triggers emotion. Conflict is the only way character changes - strenghtens, changes, learns.

Act 3 climax. Make conflict seem to go away. Frodo throws the ring into the fire.

God-shaped whole filled by Jesus completes us and is Act 3 climax promises end to conflict? Not true. Not biblical. Conflict remains. Imagine Paul doing info-mmercial???

Act 3 climax takes place at wedding feast of the Lamb in our lives. We are in Act 2 slogging through "naming the animals" like Adam before Eve.

Danish people happiest because they have low expectations - according to 60 minutes.

If we expect conflict we will not be surprised and devestated by it - Act 3 climax comes at the wedding feast of the lamb

By sharing Story, we share life and support. We strenghten. We walk together and navigate conflict of Act 2.

What STORY am I living? Sharing?