RESOURCES
Telling the Gospel through Story: Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More
A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, ©2011.
The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life
How to Ask Great Questions: Guide Your Group to Discovery with These Proven Techniques
On-line Resources
Website of John Walsh who has developed the whole Bible as story, testimonies, training events, Bible story downloads. A good source as you begin to use story.
Another John Walsh website devoted to help you tell Bible stories. He has indexed stories of the Bible with original text and options to hear the story on audio or watch a video of the story being told. Also has video with information on story insights and maps. Index is useful to find categories to organize your own story sets.
The Bible project is a non-profit organization devoted to developing visual storytelling. May download their videos for free from this website or view them on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=read+scripture
http://storyingthescriptures.com/
Website for Christine Dillion. Has blog, video, training opportunities, and preaching helps for Biblical storytelling.
This is Jim Putnam’s discipleship site. It is more about discipling in small groups, but Putnam’s church, Real Life Ministries does use Biblical storytelling in their groups.
Storytelling: A Source for Reducing Biblical Illiteracy
http://www.wciujournal.org/uploads/files/Dinkins.pdf
Objections and Benefits of an Oral Strategy for Bible Study and Teaching.
http://jgrcommunications.com/the-real-science-to-how-storytelling-affects-the-brain/
The Real Science to How Storytelling Affects the Brain written by JGR Communications who is a corporate communication consultation firm in Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.
http://touch.network/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Impact-of-Storytelling.pdf
The Impact of Storytelling, Written by the Touch Network, a British non-profit organization who tells stories of everyday people overcoming obstacles in their lives.
http://info.arielgroup.com/blog/storytelling-works-science/
Why Storytelling Works: The Science
Bibliography for PDF Documents
Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989.
Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp
Shaped by the Story: Discover the Art of Bible Storying 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Sparkhouse Press, 2013.
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005.
Real Life Small Group Rules, http://www.discipleshift.org/articles/12-guidelines-your-small-group-leader-needs-to-be-successful
http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-cant-read/
Basic Bible Storying: Preparing and Presenting Bible Stories for Evangelism, Discipleship, Training, and Ministry
Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships. Carol Stream, IL: SaltRiver, ©2010.
Truth That Sticks: How to Communicate Velcro Truth in a Teflon World, . Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2010.
T. Wright, How Can the Bible Be Authoritative? http://ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Bible_Authoritative.htm accessed June 20, 2017.