Telling God’s Stories with Power
The result of years of research and field testing, Telling God's Stories with Power is a product of the author's own journey as he confronted the challenges of teaching the Bible in parts of the world where people are unaccustomed to a Western style of learning.
Full of innovative and groundbreaking insights, this study is packed with ideas, explanations, and constructive suggestions stated in clear and simple language. Throughout the book there are extensive examples from the storytellers' own experiences. Tracing the movement of the biblical stories across multiple generations of tellers and listeners, storytelling is found to be superior for knowledge transfer and for bypassing resistance to the gospel in oral contexts, thus presenting clear evidence of the effectiveness of biblical narrative among oral learners.
Endorsements
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Readers interested in orality and church planting movements will find this volume extremely helpful.
Tom Steffenprofessor of Intercultural Studies, Biola University
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For those working with primary oral learners this book is a must read!
Avery T. Willis, Jr.executive director, International Orality Network
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I wish this book had been available when I was living and working among a non-literate people in Nigeria.
Charles H. Kraftsenior professor of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary
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This book describes the extraordinary energy unleashed by teaching oral culture people to tell the stories of the Bible by heart to their family and friends in their villages.
Thomas E. Boomershine, PhDfounder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers
Additional Details
- Pages: 332
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 2010
- ISBN: 9780878084654
- Vendor: William Carey Library
