Narrative thinking reverses the world’s way of doing things. . . . We must stop standing outside the narrative and judging it by human reason or any other intellectual discipline. Such an approach makes God and God’s narrative an object of investigation. We become the arbiter of its truthfulness. Instead, we must stand inside the narrative. God is not an object within the narrative. When we stand inside the narrative by faith, we stand under, not over, him, and we see the world through the narrative, not the other way around.
-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), 129-130.