Who Were Your Heroes?

““Myth Myth is a transcendent story is a transcendent story that helps us make sense of our that helps us make sense of our place in the cosmos. C. S. Lewis place in the cosmos. C. S. Lewis offered that the Christian gospel offered that the Christian gospel is ‘God’s myth’—not because it is ‘God’s myth’—not because it is fiction, but because it is a is fiction, but because it is a story that gives ultimate story that gives ultimate meaning.”meaning.”James A. Herrick, Christianity Today, February 2009

Defining The Heroes’ Defining The Heroes’ JourneyJourneyAn enduring story of personal transformation and collective renewal

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THEHEROES’JOURNEY

Common Elements of THJ

Moses’ Heroic Journey

• Hebrews 11:24-28–Why did Moses come out of hiding to

confront the very ruler and system that was looking for him?

–What kept him from throwing in the towel on an often ungrateful and disobedient people?

–What might we learn about our Heroes’ Journey from his?

God Captured His ImaginationExodus 3:1-3Now Moses led the flock…

to the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

Deuteronomy 34:7,12

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone… [N]o one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

He Stopped Imagining

1942 2009

The Heroes’ Journey begins

and is sustained when

we let God capture our

imaginations.

How has God captured yours?

Our church’s?