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Down through the centuries, storytelling has been a most effective way to communicate. Whether it is groups sitting around campfires or children sitting at the feet of their elders ... telling stories has been a powerful way to stir hearts and imaginations and pass on key information from one generation to another.

Our Lord Jesus Himself was the best communicator who ever lived. He used stories a lot when He taught the crowds about the Kingdom of God. He created a hunger for truth in the hearts of the people through His many parables. Today, storytelling is still an effective way to reach seeking hearts. The thing we often remember most about sermons is not the "three main points", but the illustrations!

Since its beginnings, GRN has followed Christ's method, and used Bible stories to communicate spiritual truths with many wonderful results. One memorable example happened several years ago. A missionary couple from another mission was assigned to go to an unreached tribe in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in Africa. When they arrived they were amazed to find that this "unevangelized" tribe already knew about Jesus. Fifteen years before, one of our team's had made recordings for this tribe in their language. The people had memorized all the stories on those recordings and had known about the way of salvation for all those years before any missionary arrived!

Today, lives are still captivated and convicted by the Bible stories on our tapes. A national evangelist tells us, "Since the day I received the Gospel tapes, there are 50 converts from this village, 20 from a farm nearby and 13 more from other villages."

An old man in Zimbabwe told a Christian worker, "All my life I offered sacrifices to my ancestors and prayed to them for help. Now some people came to my home to play tapes about God and his creation. For the first time in my life I begin to understand about the true God. I am glad I heard this message before I die."

To be most effective, the stories must be told with a local voice without the distraction of a foreign accent. This combination of Bible stories, a local voice and the prayers of God's people help the old, old story to keep on transforming lives the world over.

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Bible Stories on Tape: Good for oral cultures. Good for children.: It is often difficult for those of us who live in countries which enjoy many technological advances to fathom the importance and effect that recorded Bible stories can have in a developing country.

The Power of Storytelling: Storytelling has always been an effective way to communicate. Jesus used stories or parables a lot when He taught the crowds. For years Gospel Recordings has followed Christ's method and used storytelling to communicate spiritual truths, often with amazing results.

We Tell Stories: Down through the centuries, storytelling has been a most effective way to communicate.

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Stories for All: Bryan Thompson runs the story4all.com website, which is part of a growing network of believers throughout the world who are committed to bringing the Story of God to all peoples in oral form.

"Tell me the story again, Yawishi.": "At Xakapa's invitation, I retold the story of Elijah and the widow of Zaraphath in Spanish and then listened intently as he masterfully told the entire story to us and to his family in the Mastanawa language."

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