1. Evangelism in three unfinished scenes
The drama in three scenes
The theological conflict
The announcement of victory
The lived appropriation
A recurring, patterned drama
Three practical implications
2. Outsiders become insiders
From a troubled, dysfunctional family
A tired business executive
A member of the permanent underclass
Lives redescribed
Story-based imperatives
A new, covenantal identity
3. Forgetters made rememberers
The meeting with Ezra
A gift and a warning
The high cost of amnesia
The struggle to remember
Ezra's reincorporation
Our forgetting and remembering
4. Beloved children become belief-ful adults
Being with and for our children
Testimonial answers
Narratives of saturation
Narratives which command
Telling a past/dreaming a future
A fragile fidelity