Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri wrap up our series on Narrative Theology and the discussion of Samuel Wells' book "Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics" with an overview of what we've learned and how we should move forward with this knowledge.

While we navigate and improvise the fourth act of this five act play, we must remain faithful to the first three acts as we move the story forward.  As the church we can find ourselves safeguarding what we have inherited, neither adding nor subtracting from it, so that when the fifth act comes, Christ will find His church preserved intact.  Yet are we not warned in the Parable of the Talents that this is not how we are meant to behave?

We need to be willing to "risk it", to act freely not through innovation but through a faithful renewal, anticipating already what God will reveal in the final act, to live and enact the Kingdom with confidence instead of fear.  Ultimately, living this way is not a risk at all, since our trust in God is complete, and the fifth act has already been secured.