"An oral learner enters the story. He is inside it. A literate learner stands outside the story and evaluates it."'

Dorothy Miller, executive director of The God's Story Project, told

Websites• www.finishingthetask.com-for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting among unreached people groups• www.reallifeministries.com-in the United States• www.echothestory.com-with youth• www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com and www.oralstrategies .org-for Bible storying

I invited them to stand and sing the children's song "The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock." I even led them in the hand motions.After we finished, people laughed as they sat down. I told them I had gone through that exercise to emphasize a point about Jesus' story that I wanted them never to forget. Then I asked them, "What is the rock?"The

I am astounded by how many young people discuss the plots of hundreds of movies and pepper their everyday speech with lines from famous actors. The greatest influence on our worldview today is clearly the entertainment industry.

Interactive course: Tell the Story, an International Centre forExcellence in Leadership (ICEL) primer on Chronological Bible Storying available from www.imbresources.org.

Dorothy and her group have developed a sixty-five story set to follow the Gods Story DVD, and

www.truthsticks.com-This website includes online resources and perspectives of storying and discipleship.

God's stories are easily shared beyond the home-group experience. They "travel" much better than the outline on a church's bulletin insert or a fill-in-the-blank study guide. Stories talk!