This book will be help you be more effective in telling that story. There is no greater story to be told than the story of God's love for people in the person of Jesus Christ. Christine Dillon, using her extensive personal experience of working crossculturally, writes winsomely and helpfully about ways in which we can engagingly bring the gospel alive through the art of storytelling. With particular insights for trainers and those working in cross-cultural contexts, this guide provides you with concrete steps for sharing the Story that everyone needs to hear. The first thing I want to emphasize is that focusing on evangelism, not conversion, is a really helpful way to frame why you create these talking points and. But, we submit that a better way is to begin telling or teaching the Bible’s story of redemption, beginning where the Bible begins in Genesis. And, if you do enough backfilling it can be effective. This book includes practical guidance on how to shape a good story, how to do evangelism through storying and how to lead Bible discussions. That’s what we, in Good Soil Evangelism and Discipleship, call backfilling. After ministry in both Western and non-Western contexts, church planter Christine Dillon has discovered that Bible storytelling is far more effective than most other forms of apologetics or evangelistic presentations. Instead of telling people they are sinners and need to change their life, this plan focused on telling someone how I realized I was a sinner and how God changed my life. And Peter says that you need to prepare for possible opportunities to speak about him. So I decided that the focus would be on my God story or the story of whoever was doing the sharing. of interest to this study are Christian faith narratives or stories about. One reason for your hope is Jesus and what he has done in your life. In an age when pre-packaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by God to touch people's hearts and draw them to himself. telling me the right answers, but leading me to find them on my own not only.
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