Others were new to me. For instance, he told us a former pastor years ago when he was just a child only had four sermons which he repeated endlessly with hellfire and brimstone. You should love Jesus. You should love others, too. This includes everybody.
Some stories bear repeating, because while everything changes, everything remains the same.
Our stories tell us who we are, where we have been, even where we are going in continuity with our history. But whenever we tell our stories, we tend to embellish them a little so that they get changed with each telling. That's not an altogether bad thing, because retelling and elaborating are the ways we streamline these tales and claim them for ourselves and apply them and update them. We tell these stories because of what they mean to us. They are already interpreted in the way we tell them.