Preliminary Material -- Preface -- The Contributors -- A Story Alive Today -- Some Questions and a Proposal / DAVID BLATHERWICK -- At the Storm Centre / JOHN D. DAVIES -- Highly Unusual Ideological Magic / ANDREW PARKER -- Which Boat Are You In? / CHRISTOPHER BURDON -- Women in the Boat? / SUSAN MILLER -- Rescuing “Unbelieving Believers” / NEIL RICHARDSON -- Pushing the Boat Out for Mission and Ministry / LOUISE J. LAWRENCE -- An Inner-City “Other Side” -- Applying the SIFT Method / LESLIE FRANCIS -- “Be Still” in Barnsley / ALAN SAXBY -- Time for Jesus to Wake Up / GERALD WEST and BONGI ZENGELE -- Waking the Lively Dead Man / IAN WALLIS -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Biblical References.

Most books about Jesus and the Gospels deal with texts, background, culture and authorial intentions. A new approach to the Gospels called Practice Interpretation puts the emphasis on the actual happenings behind the Gospel stories – on what first hearers might have made of them, and on what contemporary disciples today make of them. The concern of the studies in this series is with the "use" of a Gospel story by disciples today, and of its "influence" on them. In this ground-breaking collection, the first in the Practice Interpretation series, people from many different situations describe what the story of Jesus Stilling the Storm actually "sparked off" in their lives.

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