Reading the gospels as story narrative

There are a lot of books out there about the Bible, and about the Gospels. I recently ran across a nice book called "Reading the Gospels Wisely."
Here is a review of the book by Jonathan Pennington.

What I like about this one is that it teaches us how to read the Gospels as stories, and that is what they are. They are stories about Jesus, and stories Jesus told. Thousands of books have been written about whether these stories are "true."
That debate is important, but lets not lose the forest for the trees.
To some degree it does not matter if the stories are true, and sometimes stories are told to make a point. When Jesus tells the story of the sower and the seed for instance, it really doesn't matter if there was in fact a guy sowing seed that he had observed.
The author talks about understanding the stories and getting the meaning of the story.
This is done of course by reading, and by asking questions.
Check out the review.