One of the great arts of Christian theology is to know how to tell the story: the story of the Old Testament, the story of Jesus as both the climax of the Old Testament and the foundation of all that was to come (not a random collection of useful preaching material with some extraordinary and saving events tacked on the end), and the story of the church from the first days until now. Sometimes a story is the only way of telling the truth. In this Scripture we see Stephen telling the story to an unfriendly audience under life-and-death circumstances.