(Donald is up and telling a story about Robert McKey, film scholar)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 9:56:42 PM
(Robert McKey doesn't like Christians)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 9:57:33 PM
What's the basics of a story?
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 9:58:51 PM
A story is a character that wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 9:59:16 PM
That's basically any story that you've ever encoutered.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 9:59:29 PM
(Via Ben Arment: Don is sick with the flu but he's speaking anyway!)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:00:04 PM
What's meaningful in a story is meaningful because it's meaningful in life.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:00:54 PM
Story teaches us so much about life.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:01:00 PM
Story has an unbelievable ability to engage the human brain.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:01:17 PM
Your brain engages music much differently than it engages noise.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:01:49 PM
Narrative engages the moral compass of the brain.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:01:56 PM
That's why the Bible uses so much narrative ... It's just story after story after story....
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:02:27 PM
The Bible is for us to get to know who God is. That's all.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:03:17 PM
(LOVE that.)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:03:22 PM
We have the relationship with Scripture that's really strange....
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:03:34 PM
We sit down with the Bible and we think, "What's in this for me?" What if it's just a relationship with God?
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:04:41 PM
"Don't get mad at me, it's just a thought"
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:04:47 PM
The number one way we learn is by living a story
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:04:59 PM
Don to a friend: "What if life isn't meaningless, what if YOUR life is meaningless? What if your story isn't going anywhere and you're convinced the world is the same way."
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:06:25 PM
A good character has to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:07:28 PM
In my life, I was heading towards the end of my story and I wasn't a selfless person.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:07:55 PM
Success doesn't necessarily tell a good story.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:09:46 PM
You could come to the end of your story, even with success, and it can still be a let down.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:10:03 PM
A character is not who they wish they were ... In a story a character is only what they do! (Ooof.)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:11:43 PM
A character is only what they actually do.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:12:01 PM
In other words, if we think we're a dad that takes our kids fishing but we don't take our kids fishing, we're not the people we think that we are.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:12:23 PM
Character actually matters and success doesn't matter as much as we think that it does in order to tell a compelling story...
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:13:38 PM
In life, in a story, we have to want something.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:13:44 PM
Even the poorest among us (in the West) have a lot ....
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:14:57 PM
We should want more ... A lot more ... The problem is just what we want, not that we want something.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:15:13 PM
The stuff we want is what our story is about ...
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:16:13 PM
The average American sees 3000 ad messages a day ... All trying to hijack your story into making it about something that it's not about
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:16:35 PM
What story are you telling with your life?
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:16:41 PM
If you were to go see a movie about a guy wrapping up a website it wouldn't be a very good movie.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:17:42 PM
I grew up without a dad. I don't know what to teach a kid without a dad. How to be bitter?
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:19:00 PM
Conflict can be beautiful.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:19:09 PM
A story cannot be meaningful unless it involves conflict. But this sounds wrong to us because the commercials tell us we shouldn't have pain.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:19:49 PM
You are not going to resolve the conflict in your life by praying more ... COnflict is here to stay.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:20:55 PM
There was conflict before the fall of humanity ... God intended conflict in the Garden.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:21:10 PM
Adam, in Genesis 2, is experiencing something that he doesn't want to experience. He's experiencing lonliness.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:21:53 PM
(That's huge.)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:21:55 PM
And that was BEFORE the Fall.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:22:10 PM
Conflict is the only way that a character changes in a story ... That is true in story because it is true in life.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:23:17 PM
If it wasn't for the pain, we wouldn't have joy.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:25:26 PM
Conflict benefits us.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:25:31 PM
If Christians could have a courageous attitude toward conflict, we could change the world.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:28:31 PM
(Donald is just destroying preconceived notions of what it means to be a Christian)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:29:34 PM
We've been taught that Jesus is the climax of the story ... He's not. Our conversion is not the climax of the story.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:29:58 PM
Do you see the effects of commercialism on the Gospel?
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:31:32 PM
We are in Act 2 in our story ... Do you know where Act 3, the climax, takes place? The wedding feast of the Lamb!
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:32:29 PM
Jesus is not a product to be peddled.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:32:36 PM
What Jesus comes to bring is hope ... We can live with an incredible amount of hope because of that.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:33:07 PM
The number one way we consume story is through each other.
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:33:20 PM
(And Don is off stage ... Probably to go wretch.)
by JustinWise at 10/28/2009 10:34:08 PM