What Story Are You Living?

Allen Arnold has spent the last fifteen years as Executive Producer of Content with Wild at Heart, the ministry founded by John Eldredge, and published roughly 500 novels in the decade before that. He is the author of The Eden Option (the book that gave StoryOne its name), The Creativity Glitch, and a few others. Most families who love God are doing a great deal for God. Far fewer, however, are doing any of it with Him. That is the distinction between Story One, the story God intends for your family, and Story Two, the life built on the culture's terms with God set aside. The difference isn't trivial. It shows up in how capital is deployed or buried, whether the rising generation is invited into the work or merely notified of it, and whether a family's charitable giving is just a line item or a joyful participation in something God is already doing. In this faith at work conversation, Arnold, John Christensen, and Cameron Bond sharpen the framework the StoryLens podcast has carried since Episode 2. That is, knowing which story a family is living in isn't a matter of guessing but of looking honestly at what the family keeps choosing.