May 8, 2008
What’s the difference between giving a report and telling a story?
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Reports comprise indiscriminate detail without any purposeful meaning.
Whereas stories are select details that intentionally influence how you respond.
Here’s a report:
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Important hermeneutical implications here (e.g. 1 Samuel 17:57b). In narrative, details are for a reason. Good post.
The comics printed in the newspapers these days are, by and large, blah. Better to spend your time on comics that are actually funny and/or thought-provoking. To wit: Dinosaur Comics (qwantz.com) and xkcd (xkcd.com).
Heh heh. Ever seen Dave Walker’s Wiblog?
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/
I agree with Chris.
That’s a huge concept to remember, especially when you try to understand why Moses included, repeated, or excluded the laws of Sinai that he did in the Pentateuch, etc.
When I was growing up…with two sisters…I learned with great glee, how to phrase a REPORT and garrner an intentional response.
thinking about this …. who is the ‘you’ in ..”how ‘you’ respond”…? does it refer to the one presumably listening to the story? or, to the storyteller?
Yes, the listener.
good post, Sir. I agreed with you.