sticker I see sometimes: “Life’s a b*tch, and then you die.” Becoming authentic Christ-followers involves leaving behind the stories that our world and our culture have taught us (many of which distill into the secular quest for the “big three”—money, sex, and power)3 and embracing an altogether new story, God’s story, as revealed to us in the Bible. But there are two particular difficulties we face in making this change. The first is that our culture’s stories aren’t easily loosened from our way