I did a presentation the other day
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 14:06 — Richard Roper
I did a presentation the other day and I was very pleased yet perplexed
with one of the responses I got from one of the listeners.
I was explaining to everyone, the importance of stories in communicating the gospel in story.
Stories for those of you that have not thought about it, are the preferred method of communicating information, for many if not all societies.
Not just that but many groups in our world do not consider information to be important or worthwhile knowing, unless it is in a story. Some even require the stories to be in musical form in order for them to give them any value at all.
Stories communicate to those who can't or choose not to read. Which by the way is, depending on the statistics that you read, any were between 47% and 2/3rds of the world.
A story will be remembered more readily than any other form of communication. I always mention to those I am presenting that I am willing to bet that the only thing that they will remember from my presentation is my stories. They always promise faithfully to remember more but I am skeptical.
Stories are the easiest way to get a point across.
Jesus was the great story teller.
When the the Rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" was around and was copping so much controversy from most of the Christian world I was confused, because I thought the character of Judas raised a very important question.
Why Did Jesus come in 4BC an not to day when we have all our mass communication?
I think part of the answer is because it was a time when stories and literature could co-exist and there respective importance's maintained. That's why we call it the Story if Jesus. Not be cause it's fiction but because its truth. The truth communicated in the most important format... a story. It's the ultimate True Story.
Stories are some of the quickest to translate and often because of the familiarity of the form it is often the easiest to get a recording of. After all that's what Global recording is all about. Recording the stories of the Bible and most importantly of Jesus. Thus we can get a recoding out in a much quicker time than any written form, allowing the gospel to be told whilst the important written form is still coming.
Anyway having related all this, one incredibly astute lady said "why aren't all missions using this".
I was of course most please because I had won an advocate but also perplexed because I was not able to answer her question to my satisfaction. Whilst many Christian missions are using our material, Why aren't they all?
Richard
I was explaining to everyone, the importance of stories in communicating the gospel in story.
Stories for those of you that have not thought about it, are the preferred method of communicating information, for many if not all societies.
Not just that but many groups in our world do not consider information to be important or worthwhile knowing, unless it is in a story. Some even require the stories to be in musical form in order for them to give them any value at all.
Stories communicate to those who can't or choose not to read. Which by the way is, depending on the statistics that you read, any were between 47% and 2/3rds of the world.
A story will be remembered more readily than any other form of communication. I always mention to those I am presenting that I am willing to bet that the only thing that they will remember from my presentation is my stories. They always promise faithfully to remember more but I am skeptical.
Stories are the easiest way to get a point across.
Jesus was the great story teller.
When the the Rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" was around and was copping so much controversy from most of the Christian world I was confused, because I thought the character of Judas raised a very important question.
Why Did Jesus come in 4BC an not to day when we have all our mass communication?
I think part of the answer is because it was a time when stories and literature could co-exist and there respective importance's maintained. That's why we call it the Story if Jesus. Not be cause it's fiction but because its truth. The truth communicated in the most important format... a story. It's the ultimate True Story.
Stories are some of the quickest to translate and often because of the familiarity of the form it is often the easiest to get a recording of. After all that's what Global recording is all about. Recording the stories of the Bible and most importantly of Jesus. Thus we can get a recoding out in a much quicker time than any written form, allowing the gospel to be told whilst the important written form is still coming.
Anyway having related all this, one incredibly astute lady said "why aren't all missions using this".
I was of course most please because I had won an advocate but also perplexed because I was not able to answer her question to my satisfaction. Whilst many Christian missions are using our material, Why aren't they all?
Richard
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