Qualities of a Well-Lived Story

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What draws you to a human being?

This week, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen begin a new series on the podcast about what makes up the various qualities of and what it means to live a well-lived story. Our own stories are not enough to guide us into living well—we need other people, pictures of, and examples who reveal the very qualities that our stories are meant to reveal. In this episode, you’ll hear Dan and Rachael discuss the characteristics of a well-lived story worth emulating and how, over the coming weeks, they’ll be inviting special guests to share with us how some of these characteristics have come to be a part of their own life and story,

Resources:

Watch a video about Wendell Moss on the Unique Honor of Story Work with Dr. Dan Allender
Listen to a podcast series about a deep dive into one of our online courses, Story Sage

Listen to a podcast episode, What If I Fear My Story?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:27.5	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, I am so excited about what we're going to do over the span of a number of weeks.
0:34.8	We're going to talk about what it means to live a well-lived story.
0:40.3	The bottom line is, look, our own story is never enough to in one sense guide us into living well.
0:49.6	We need others. We need models. We need pictures. We need examples of people who draw us,
0:58.0	who in many ways almost unnerve us with the level of their life. And to begin to see that the very
1:09.0	qualities that make them so unique are the very things that our story is meant to reveal.
1:18.1	And look, a well-lived story is not about being in exotic places with well-known people with exciting endings. A well-lived story engages the very
1:34.4	reality of living in a fallen world in a way that offers and engages justice and mercy.
1:43.4	I love that passage in Psalm 85, justice and mercy kissing.
1:50.6	And so, what for you draws you to a human being? What are the qualities, Rachel, when you think about, just in a broad sense, what are the things that draw you to someone and you say, I want to be like you?
2:07.8	Well, I think integrity will always be a category for me that is really helpful.
2:14.0	Just when there's a sense of, I know that I'm in the midst of someone who has
2:18.9	integrity, and I don't just mean like moral integrity. I mean the sense of they have come to know
2:25.3	that they are made in the image of God and that all parts of them get to be along for the right
2:32.5	and that they're in a process. And I think about courage and this capacity, not bravery, just for the sake of bravery,
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