Let's Talk About Metanarratives - Part 1

The Manna Podcast

Everyone has a narrative. We record them on Tik Tok. We capture them on Instagram. We plaster them on both digital and physical walls. We wear them on shirts, write them on signs, and shout them in the streets. And in our tribalistic American society, we see narratives foisted forcefully onto others – to the point where the ‘conversation’ is more or less an ultimatum: “Get on board, or get wrecked.” Literally.

These narratives all require a metanarrative – an overarching lens by which to interpret the world around us, or as Pastor Jeske puts it, “the necessary narrative bedrock that undergirds the story of our very existence.” Sounds heavy, I know. But in a culture of competing worldviews, the conversation of metanarratives is absolutely inescapable - for everyone.

This episode is Part 1 of a four part dialogue between Pastor Jeske and podcast cohost Pastor Justin Shrum on metanarratives. In these episodes, Pastor Jeske and Pastor Shrum discuss the popular metanarratives of post-modern America, and illustrate why the Christian metanarrative exhaustively, coherently, and cohesively addresses life’s greatest existential questions and affords a relevant, real, and reliable foundation for the narratives of our lives.