God’s narrative is the subject of the church and its ministries. Everything that the church is and does flows out of God’s narrative. There is an urgent need to restore this connection between the narrative, the church and its ministries. . . . When the church and its ministries are disconnected from God’s narrative, they become subject to the whims of culture.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 123.