Living in Story (LIS) is a participatory seminar that introduces a revolutionary change to church and organizational culture by identifying & awakening the often dormant capacities that enable persons to become agents of transformation in their church and community. This change represents a dynamic alternative to the therapeutic orientation that subverts personal & community transformation in both our churches & culture. What can I expect to gain from an LIS seminar? Your understanding of the importance of story processes will be changed from thinking of story as soft, therapeutic, and sentimental, to a much more critical understanding of how story literally shapes the world we live in. Living in Story will demonstrate the importance of activating the image of God in persons to: ♣ Uncover meaningful interpretations of a given situation ♣ Open out into a quality of dialogical communication ♣ Understand the dynamics of personal transformation ♣ Facilitate reciprocal relationship(s) ♣ Become an active participant in a transcendent community ♣ Discover and operate by the desires of the heart ♣ Collaborate with others in the redemptive shaping of the whole world How Do I participate in an LIS seminar? LIS utilizes a dialogical structure – meaning, you can expect to be participating in dialogue much of the time. The seminar consists of 5 one-hour participatory sessions that involve: challenging assertions; Biblical stories; contemporary stories; small group discussion & whole group discussion. The 5th session will recap 4 dynamic assertions along with additional lessons that emerge, followed by a whole group discussion. The seminar will conclude with an introduction to a specific application of Living in Story, called, Abundance in the Beloved Community, a time bank community ministry. Living in Story Reciprocal Missionality in the Image of God