Our hearts traffic in stories. Not only are we lovers, we are also storytellers (and storylisteners). As the novelist David Foster Wallace once put it, “We need narrative like we need space-time; it’s a built-in thing.” We are narrative animals whose very orientation to the world is most fundamentally shaped by stories. Indeed, it tends to be stories that capture our imagination— stories that seep into our heart and aim our love. We’re less convinced by arguments than moved by stories. The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre says that stories are so fundamental to our identity that we don’t know what to do without one. As he puts it, I can’t answer the question “What ought I to do?” unless I have already answered a prior question, “Of which story am I a part?” It is a story that provides the moral map of our universe.

Smith, James K. A. (2013-09-01). Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (p. 54). Calvin College Press. Kindle Edition.

And "we are a community of faith, caught up in the story of God in Christ"... The Gospel.