If you'd like to get an email each time we add an episode, sign up here. This episode wraps up our series on J-Curve: Union with Christ by looking at how the J-Curve helps in a mini-crisis.

“The Apostle Paul introduces the J-Curve as a kind of a master story 'let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus' (Philippians 2:5). And then he describes the downward journey of Jesus all the way to death on a cross."

"Every community has a narrative."

"The J-Curve normalizes the bumps. There’s a kind of perfectionism now in our culture that sort of demands that life should be bump free. Paul the Apostle is a perfectionist, but his perfectionism is in his ability to reenact the dying and rising of Christ. It's the perfection of love. It's the perfection of faith. And it's not in my situation. So it allows me to have this calm center in all kinds of circumstances."