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\"oyan-blog-weave-pinterest\"<\/a>By Ryan Robidoux, Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a One Year Adventure Novel<\/em> student and a Christian, you are not unusual. Many \u201cOYANers\u201d write faith-informed stories. As Christian writers, we know stories are powerful<\/strong>, and we want to impact people with our stories. Indeed, that\u2019s our calling, isn\u2019t it? To share the Gospel?<\/p>\n

Easy enough, right?<\/p>\n

Well, if we want to write novels with Christian characters or allegories like The Chronicles of Narnia, then, yes, weaving the Gospel into our stories would be relatively easy. But what if we want to write non-allegorical fantasy or science fiction or historical fiction with pagan characters?<\/strong> It wouldn\u2019t be very historical to give a conversion scene to characters living in pre-Christian Greece, nor would it be realistic to make all our characters Christian in our mythical, high fantasy worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can I proclaim the Gospel in my stories, then?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t . . . at least, not consciously.<\/strong> Now, I\u2019m not talking about tossing all Christian themes out the window; do include that theme of forgiveness or courage or sacrifice. What I\u2019m talking about is intentionally including direct Gospel parallels in our stories\u2014for example, creating a Christ- figure or giving characters Christ-like arcs or creating a plot that looks an awful lot like the Christian journey\u2014seemingly allegorical elements.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to intentionally include those elements because they will show up in our stories on their own<\/strong>\u2014without our conscious effort\u2014and they will be better for it.<\/p>\n

Writers often joke about their characters having wills of their own, doing things and saying things the authors did not plan for. J. R. R. Tolkien, were he alive, could confirm that this happens: when he first started The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, Aragorn was a hobbit-prince named \u201cTrotter\u201d (instead of the human ranger called \u201cStrider\u201d) and Faramir was never supposed to meet Frodo and Sam in Ithilien. Likewise, the Gospel story will show up in our stories whether we want it to or not<\/strong>\u2014and the reason is a bit more profound than Faramir becoming self-aware and ruining Tolkien\u2019s outline.<\/p>\n

The Gospel Story Is Set in Your Heart<\/h3>\n

As John Eldredge<\/a> points out in his book, Epic<\/em>, the author of Ecclesiastes tells us, \u201c[God] has planted eternity in the human heart\u201d (3:11). The Gospel Story\u2014the great Epic and Romance of Reality\u2014is in our blood; we can\u2019t escape it. Almost every story ever told, in some way or another, follows the same structure as the Gospel story.<\/strong> The world was good. Something dark and terrible happened. A hero must arise and fix things, usually fighting a battle or embarking on a quest and fighting for someone he or she loves (whether romantically or not).<\/p>\n

As Christians, when we write stories, The Story will find its way into ours, and our readers will pick up on it and be impacted by it because we all have eternity set in our hearts<\/strong>. I never notice the Gospel story flowing in as I outline and write my stories; it\u2019s only after I\u2019ve written a scene or designed a character that I notice the Gospel story has woven itself in.<\/p>\n

To show you what I mean, in the fantasy novel I\u2019ve been writing, one of the characters ends up sacrificing himself to prevent the woman he loves from dying. I outlined that scene many times, and it went through many drafts, but it wasn\u2019t until I had finally nailed down a version I actually liked that I realized it contained so many parallels with the Gospel\u2019s story of Jesus choosing to die to prevent the people He loves from dying.<\/p>\n

Tolkien provides another great example. How many of you have been inspired, encouraged, or challenged by The Lord of the Rings<\/em>? How many of you have noted how strikingly similar its elements are to the Gospel story?<\/strong> A great battle between good and evil. An intimate fellowship to see the quest through to the end. The return of the rightful king to his throne. Would you be surprised to learn that Tolkien did not intentionally include those Gospel parallels when writing The Lord of the Rings<\/em>?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true. You might have heard this often-quoted statement from one of Tolkien\u2019s letters: \u201cThe Lord of the Rings<\/em> is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.\u201d People often leave off the second half of that sentence, though: \u201cunconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.\u201d<\/strong> As Tolkien was writing The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, he was not thinking of his faith, but, when he was going back and reading it, he noticed those Christian themes.<\/p>\n

We can take heart, then, as Christian writers: we can write powerful, Gospel-centered stories without even trying!<\/strong> We can write fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction, or stories of any other genre without Christian characters or a salvation sermon and still preach the Gospel. The Lord of the Rings<\/em> takes place in a polytheistic world and doesn\u2019t mention God once, yet it has impacted generations with the inspiring and life-changing message of the Gospel.<\/p>\n

If you want to write an allegory like Narnia, that\u2019s fine. If you want to write a story with Christian characters, that\u2019s fine. But if you don\u2019t want to write those kinds of stories\u2014or your genre doesn\u2019t allow you to\u2014you can still have an impact<\/strong>;\u00a0you can still live out your calling . . . and that\u2019s an encouraging thought.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Which stories (your own or others\u2019) have impacted you the most with their (unintentional) Gospel parallels?<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\"RyanRobixouxHeadshot\"<\/a>About Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryan has grown up with a love for storytelling and has been a One Year Adventure Novel<\/em> student (an \u201cOYANer\u201d) since 2013. He spends most of his free time working on his novel-in- progress (almost always speculative fiction), playing the piano, reading, contra dancing, or swing dancing. He unashamedly proclaims his favorite genres of music to listen to and play are Celtic and folk music and Broadway, film, and video game soundtracks. A student at Charleston Southern University, he is majoring in English with a Writing Emphasis and minoring in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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