Welcome to Knowing Faith After the Fact, where we answer practical tips or pick up on themes that we didn't have time to get to during a regular broadcast. Here we go. I've got JT and I get to talk to you about one of I hope one of your favorite things.

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Well, one of the things that I hear most frequently coming out of people who've participated in the training program is how that idea of false

stories has sort of captured their thinking and is shaping the way that they view the world.

You talk a lot about false stories that people live in.

And so I was wondering if you could just sort of give us a

snapshot of what some of those are but then I'm also interested in knowing which of those

false stories do you think you most typically see people living in like one or two that you think

are have a particular grip on us today I do love this question and I do love talking

about it so this is a part of the first lecture in the training program where we're trying to tell people that a huge part of discipleship is being able to identify the story that you think is the default story of the world that you don't even think that when you get up

out of bed and your feet at the ground every morning you're living in a story that

helps you make sense of reality. Bob Bet Buster has a quote that I love that says he

who tells the best story wins.

There's another one that basically says,

you can't know what you're going to do

until you know what story you find yourself a part of.

And so part of discipleship

is being able to identify the false stories we live in so that we can

become better participants in the true story. So one of the things we'll

start doing is naming these false stories and this isn't like an exhaustive

list. I just made I made these up when I was I did I didn't make up all the ideas but I was like what are the false stories you live in so here are a few that that might make sense so one false story is the story of romanticism that basically tells us you are your emotions. The other false

story is a story of consumerism that the good life is just consuming high quality

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