OK, I don’t mean to be irreverent here, but I read some good news for storytelling fans who believe the Bible is the word of God and even for agnostics like me who aren’t sure. This comes from “Guest Author” at Impact, a blog for Southern Baptists:
There is a reason that narrative (story) is the genre of writing most common to the Holy Scriptures. It is because stories connect with us and God knows it. God chose to reveal the majority of the Old Testament in story form.