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The Gospels as Stories: A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is unavailable, but you can change that!

Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is filled with numerous examples that show how narrative criticism brings the text to life, making it an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on...

suggests a more nuanced way for understanding it. First, the story line from Matthew 18–20 features Jesus pressing his followers to live in a countercultural way regarding status. Greatness is subsumed to service (18:1–5; 20:25–28), and Jesus so redefines “being first” that a slave—one with no status—can be the epitome of this kind of discipleship.20 This storied context signals that true discipleship is about avoiding presumption about status and disavowing the pursuit of higher status in the kingdom
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