Resources
RESOURCES
Starting anything new is a challenge and may even be a bit frightening. Biblical storytelling is like that.
Our mission is to provide resources for those who may be interested in developing storytelling or storyteller training themselves.
These methods and tools have been successfully field-tested over many years on several continents. They have been used to train hundreds to effectively share the biblical stories with others.
Get started with some of the free resources here:
110 Tellable Bible Stories
People who haven't tried telling Bible stories sometimes say, "I can't tell the Bible stories because I can't remember them." To help, I created a list of 110 easily tellable Bible stories.
Learn About Biblical Storytelling
In this online video presentation, Paul and Teresa share fascinating experiences and deep insights gained from their years spent among oral learners.
Listen to accounts of how God gave supernatural confirmations of the told stories through physical healing, provision, conception, protection, and the restoration of human relationships.
This demonstration of God's power on behalf of needy people spoke clearly of his love for them. The amazing stories that resulted are reminiscent of the community of believers in the New Testament.
For these storytellers and their listeners, God's intervention appeared to be a normal result of telling and hearing the Bible stories. Faith that God would do for them what he had done for others seemed to come quite naturally.
Learn How To Tell BIble Stories Effectively
Telling God’s Stories with Power
This book is a product of the author's own journey in search of a more effective way to teach the Bible. 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.