telling my story for evangelism good or not

Therefore, the first step in telling a Bible story is to read the story in the Bible. You see, it takes a real familiarity with a story to be able to tell it well. If you were to tell the story of the prodigal son right now, how would you do? You may find that you didn’t know the story as well as you thought. As an example, I’ve recently been telling the Exodus stories in our church meetings. From there, you could move to historical narratives from the Gospels or the Old Testament. I suggest that you start by telling parables because they are short and require very little background explanation. Try to find a story, or set of stories, that have a reasonably clear beginning and ending. But first, let me give you a few ideas about how and when to do it. We get to hear them again in at least one way that God intended. When we tell stories, they come to life, they become fresh again, and they communicate God’s truth to our newly opened minds. Storytelling can help us regain that experience. And while the Bible does indeed give us an “official” version of these stories, we can sometimes so analyze and explain the text that we forget to experience them as stories. The fact is, God didn’t only give us facts in the Bible, he gave us stories. Since then, I’ve had more exposure to Bible storytelling, and I’ve become convinced that it ought to have a place in our Christian experience. I even remember how I felt when Jesus turned and looked at Peter after his third denial. The story lived and breathed, impacting me almost as if I had never heard it before. I was sitting in one of our house church meetings, and my brother and sister began telling the story of Jesus’ passion from the end of Luke. I remember one of the first times I ever heard a Bible story deliberately told to me as an adult.

Telling my story for evangelism good or not