STORY
SMART
SMART
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is the Setting
This act introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.
What is ACT 1
Like stories, our lives unfold over this.
What is time?
This word means an overarching or “big” story.
What is a meta narrative?
This is a pattern of beliefs that helps a person interpret life.
What is a worldview?
These are the people or individuals involved in a story.
Who Are the Characters
This act develops the struggle or conflict.
What is ACT 2
Our lives include people, settings, choices, and these difficult situations.
What are Challenges?
A metanarrative connects these smaller units into one larger story.
What are smaller stories?
Christianity, Islam, secular humanism, Marxism, and this worldview that questions universal truth were examples discussed.
What is postmodernism?
This is the struggle or problem that drives a story forward.?
What is the Conflict?
This act includes the climax and resolution.
What is Act 3
Thinking about where our decisions are leading us requires us to examine these.
What are our choices?
Metanarratives help people interpret their experiences and understand this.What is reality/the world around them
What is reality/the world around them?
worldview gives answers to major questions about truth, purpose, evil, and how we should do this.
What is live or live well?
Setting, characters, conflict, theme, plot, and point of view are all examples of these.
What are the elements of a good story?
The highest or most intense point in the action is called this.
What is the Climax
Looking at our lives as stories can help us think about the meaning and this of our lives.
What is Purpose?
The Bible’s larger story includes creation, human rebellion, redemption, and this final part.
What is Restoration?
A worldview contains beliefs, while this tells the larger story behind those beliefs.
What is a metanarrative?
Stories can influence what we believe about things such as justice, friendship, loyalty, and this struggle between right and wrong.
What are Good and Evil
The three-act structure is useful because it helps a story move forward and gives it this quality by the end.
What is completeness or Resolution
A larger story can help us understand how our individual lives fit into this.
What is a broader or bigger picture
A metanarrative helps explain how individual events and lives fit into this.
What is the larger story?
Different worldviews may address the same big questions but arrive at these.
What are Different Answers or Conclusions?