Ninety Biblical Story Lessons for Adults: Models for Biblical Storytelling

Roché, Jim

ISBN 13: 9798385207183

Published by Wipf and Stock, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ninety Biblical Story Lessons for Adults: Models for Biblical Storytelling
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385207183
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How would new, untrained Christians kindly and humbly introduce God to their non-Christian friends? What if neither the Christian nor the non-Christian could learn from printed materials such as pamphlets, books, or the Bible itself? What if the new Christian was usually alone and untrained in a community hostile to Christian beliefs? How could these new Christians continue the process of reproducing spiritual generations without first being fully taught themselves?

The strategy offered here is to tell biblical stories that can be easily retold. Stories that revealed God’s acts and perspectives leading to questions and discussion. Stories that caused new listeners to question their own beliefs.

You’re holding a collection of ninety stories designed to be retold by anyone—thirty Old Testament stories chronologically arranged from creation to the return from Israel’s exile; thirty Gospel stories from the announcement of Jesus’ birth to his ascension to heaven; and thirty stories from the New Testament from Pentecost to Jesus’ return from heaven to earth. Each lesson is built upon the principles from Roché’s first book, Biblical Storytelling Design: Understanding Why Oral Stories Work, but modeled and explained in this book.

About the Author

Jim Roche served for over six years as pastor of Christian education, fourteen years in Christian higher education, and seventeen years in Christian missions administration, the last four years as director of the Southern European Orality Project for Entrust mission. Roche authored Biblical Storytelling Design: Understanding Why Oral Stories Work (2020).