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How to Tell The Big Story

How to Tell The Big Story. By Cindy Wiles. What is The Big Story? The Big Story is God’s Story. As followers of Christ, we know God’s story through His various revelations to us:.

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How to Tell The Big Story

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  1. How to Tell The Big Story By Cindy Wiles

  2. What is The Big Story?The Big Story is God’s Story. As followers of Christ, we know God’s story through His various revelations to us: • The Bible – the divinely inspired and authoritative revelation of God that has been canonized. The Bible describes itself as true, God-breathed, living, active, guiding, powerful and life-changing. • History – the account of the world and reality that is verified through Scripture, historical documentation, archeological findings, science and human experience. • Personal Revelation – this knowledge makes up our testimony. It is the highly subjective revelation of God through the work of His Spirit in our lives that is always in harmony with the truths of Scripture. It is an eye-witness account of the work of God in the life of the believer.

  3. We each have a Story Our individual lives have a narrative unique to each of us. However, our little stories only achieve significance as they are a part of the Big Story.

  4. Why is knowing the Story Important? • It is God’s Story. Without Him there would be no story. He alone is worthy of having His story known and told. God wants you to know His story. Our ability to worship God is contingent upon our ability to recognize His work and acts. The more I know of His Big Story, the more I stand in awe of Him. • Context matters. Your worldview as a Christ-follower is the result of The Big Story and should be increasingly affected by The Big Story. If you do not know where you have come from, you do not fully understand who you are and it is likely that you do not know where you are going. It is essential that others understand their own context (a sinner in need of God’s grace) before they can acknowledge their need for God.

  5. Why is knowing the Story Important? • God expects us not only to know His Story – but to teach it to others. • 1 Chronicles 16: 8-36 • Psalm 78: 2-7 • Everybody loves a good story. There is reason why this is true: • Every person born into the world begins as an oral learner. • The majority of the world is made up of oral learners. • Forms of orality and sensual expression are the passionate communication of every known culture- music, dance, drama, relationship, narrative expressions. • We live in an age in Western civilization where there is a shift from primary literacy to a blend of learning that strongly engages the skills oral communication – radio, i-pod, oral books, video, etc. • Most people do not know this story. We cannot assume they do.

  6. How do I tell the Big Story? • Enter every relationship as an opportunity to tell the story. • Be sensitive to opportunities to tell the story; create opportunities to tell the story. • Define your goal – what do you hope to accomplish through the story? Goals should be determined by bridges and barriers. Choose stories that build bridges and that lower barriers. • Choose a string of little stories around a central theme or effort to string them together. Potential themes: Blood redemption, God’s Love, God’s revelation, God’s provision, Sin and Grace, Old and New Covenant, Names of God, God of all People, Jesus is God, God of Justice; God of Righteousness, Man in the image of God, God’s Grace and Forgiveness, The Chronological Story, God of Relationship, etc.

  7. How do I tell the Big Story? • Determine oral bridges to connect your story. • Tailor your story to your time frame. • Practice with children, group or an individual you feel comfortable with. • Keep the door open for further storying.

  8. Biblical Examples of Storying • Psalm 78 • Paul – Acts 13: 16-41 • Jesus with two disciples on the road to Emmaus – Luke 24– Beginning with Moses and the Prophets, he explained everything to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

  9. Resources for Storying • Orality Strategies Website • http://www.oralitystrategies.org/about.cfm?Page=4 • Orality and Storying the Bible, Erika Parks, GCPN Panorama: A Broad View of the World and Your Place in It. • T4T – Training for Trainers: A Discipleship Revolution, by Ying Kai.

  10. Key Stories • Introducing the Bible • God Alone • God Created the Spirit Beings/Lucifer’s Rebellion • God Created the Heavens and the Earth • God Created Man • God Placed Adam in the Garden • God Made Eve • Adam and Eve Disobeyed God • God’s Promise and Curse • God’s Provision and Judgment/Birth of Cain and Abel/God Rejected Cain and His Offering/God Accepted Abel and His Offering

  11. Key Stories Continued • Cain, a Sinner the Son of Sinners, Noah – God Judges a Sinful World and Delivers Noah and All in the Ark • God Remembers Noah and All in the Ark; The Covenant • God Scatters the Rebellious People at the Tower of Babel • God Chose, Called and Guided Abram; Lot Chooses the Fertile Plains of Sodom and Gomorrah • God Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; God Renewed His Promises to Abraham • God Gave Isaac; God Delivers Isaac from Death • God Chose Jacob and rejected Esau; Jacob’s Son Joseph • God Promoted Joseph and Took Israel Into Egypt • God Preserved Israel Enslaved in Egypt; God Chose, Protected and Called Moses to Deliver Israel; God Reveals His Name

  12. Key Stories Continued • God Sent Plagues on Egypt; God Passed Over Israel • God Delivered Israel from Egypt and Provides for them in the Wilderness • Preparation and Giving the Ten Commandments; God Reveals His Essence and Character • The Tabernacle • Israels’ Unbelief; God’s Judgment and Deliverance • Israel in the Promised Land Under Judges and Kings • The Prophets and the Prophetic Message • Prophecies: The Foretelling of John and Jesus; The New Covenant • God Fulfills His Promises by Giving Jesus • God Sent John to Teach and Baptize; Jesus is baptized

  13. Key Stories Continued • Jesus Resists Sin and Rebukes Satan • Jesus Begins His Ministry • You Must Be Born Again – Nicodemus Story • Jesus Calls Disciples to Follow Him • Evidences of Jesus Divinity – Power over Nature, Power over Spirit World, Power over Sickness, Power over Death • The Way of the Scribes and Pharisees is Not God’s Way • Claims Jesus makes about Himself • The Transfiguration • The Plot to Kill Jesus • Jesus’ Prophetic Ride into Jerusalem; The Lord’s Supper; The New Covenant; The Church

  14. Key Stories Continued • Jesus Arrested by His Enemies • Jesus Crucified and Buried • The Meaning of Christ’s Death from the Old Testament • Jesus Raised from the Dead; Appearance to Disciples • Return to Heaven and Great Commission • Apostolic Witness • The Conversion of Paul • The Church • The Great Multitude • The Return of Christ • The White Throne of Judgment • The Judgment of Satan and Evil • The New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem • The Presence of God with Man

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