This article follows upon an earlier article (\u27Preaching: where we\u27ve been\u27, Consensus 8,3-11 Ja 82). Developments in communication, technology, hermeneutics and myth directed preaching to understand itself as \u27event\u27 and therefore to shape itself as \u27story\u27. The narrative form can carry the varied and contradictory realities and mysteries of life as no rational \u27system\u27 can, and is true to the prime genre of the Bible. While the work of keener definition remains to be done, narrative preaching demonstrates the power to give people a better \u27story to live by\u27
