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# A Most Important Story.
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/a-most-important-story/
- Published: 2025-04-11T10:01:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:51:26.000Z
- Description: The retelling makes us who we are.
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThank you for your prayers.  
  
This is the most important time of the year.  
We are coming into the time  
when we are **called to remember**  
the saving acts of God in Jesus Christ.  
  
I am fortunate  
that I am also called to remember  
my own genetic heritage,  
that we were once slaves in Egypt,  
but with an outstretched arm and a mighty hand   
our own God brought out of slavery  
and into **freedom.**  
  
It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.  
Full stop.  
  
And our own God  
tread the winepress alone.  
God sent a son  
to redeem a slave,  
and brought many sons to God.  
  
**Stories matter.**  
And the story of the next week  
has inspired   
more art, literature,  
and music  
than any other in human history.  
It really is the greatest story ever told.  
  
This story makes you who you are.  
**You are a living expression of this story.**  
  
I say this every year,  
but don't rush to Easter.  
You need to wave your palms   
and follow Jesus   
on the donkey.  
You need to listen to the whispers  
as the betrayer plots   
and gets his thirty pieces.  
You need to follow Jesus   
into the upper room  
and feel the water on your feet.  
You need to go to dark Gethsemane  
and hear the sighs and see the kiss.  
You need to follow Jesus into the court of Pilate,  
and follow Jesus through the city  
and see the trail of blood.  
You need to wipe his face  
and look at the image.  
You need to see him  
hanging on the cross  
and watch them lay him in the tomb.  
  
**Do not miss the story.**  
This is where we came from  
and why what we do matters.  
  
Lord Jesus Christ,  
you stretched out your arms of love  
on the hard wood of the cross  
that everyone might come  
within the reach of your saving embrace:  
so clothe us in your Holy Spirit  
that we reaching forth our hands in love,  
may bring those who do not know you  
to the knowledge and love of you,  
*for the honor of your name. Amen.*  
  
*Belonging House International is a community of artists and creative people called to build Jesus a throne in the earth. In other words, we make disciples who will disciple the nations in the world of creativity.*

Christ John Otto writes at https://christjohnotto.substack.com

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