An excerpt that sounds exactly like what I'm talking about

This is from chapter 2 of the 2004 book "New Way To Be Human" by Charlie Peacock

What would you say "Jack and Jill" is about? I'd say this is a story of two people traveling to get water and having an accident. But what if "Jack and Jill" is about
1. the partnership of male and female in the day-to-day needs of life?
2. the admission of human need (water), and how, in this world, meeting needs is often very difficult, dangerous work?
3. the topography of life where there are hills and valleys, and sometimes you climb a hill just to fall back down again?
4. the fact that human actions with the best of intentions for the purest of needs can still end in tragedy?
5. the ineptitude of men, and how they drag women down with them (Just kidding, I think.)
What if "Jack and Jill" is about all of this (and more), and it is about two people traveling to get water and having an accident?
What we think the story is about depends a good deal on where we stand as we read it or observe it...What if Christianity is about humans as sinners in need of a Savior, but like "Jack and Jill", it is about so much more? What if the "so much more" is just as important as the fact that we are sinful humans in need of a Savior? What if it's the "so much more" that provides the controlling Story for unceasing life beginning right now? To miss something as important as the controlling story would be to miss the script, the operating instructions, the way to be human...The narrative of God acting in human history is compelling, not boring. Yet somehow many of us who profess to follow Jesus have dreamed up the most fantastic ways to rob the Story of its power to attract and invite. Do you ever wonder...
-why people who call themselves Christians are so easily caricatured?
-why Christianity is so often seen as an unattractive religion when Jesus the person on whom it was founded, is considered to be one of the most enigmatic, compelling, and attractive figures in world history...
-why people who call themselves Christians have taken their place among the cliched, bored, cynical masses as if they hold no sure means to escape or transcend such a fate?
-why the talk of professing Christians about "their faith" sounds like a mantra they've grown bored with rather than the story of something profound, myserious, beautiful, and life-changing?
-why professing Christians can't seem to discuss "their faith" with anything near the expertise, enthusiasm, and imagination they have for hobbies, sports, celebrities, films, or music?
Marva Dawn voiced my own frustrations when she said, "One main reason why people outside of Christian spirituality aren't attracted to it is because we (Christians) don't demonstrate a way of life different enough to warrant belief.

I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of this book!