Jesus’ method of teaching, using stories and parables, is well adapted to African culture, where storytelling is part of family life and literacy rates are low. In Orality Training we take advantage of this by asking participants to close their Bibles and notebooks. The trainer simply tells the Bible story, which the students master through repetition. Once everyone has had a chance to repeat the story accurately, the following questions are asked:
What do you like in this story?
What don’t you like in this story?
What strikes you from this story?
What do you learn from this story?
To whom will you tell this story?
These inductive questions can be used with any story or Bible passage, and are easily mastered by everyone, regardless of their ability to read. Of greater importance, when people share what they see in God’s Word, it is not the leader, but the Holy Spirit doing the teaching, with deep, longer lasting effects.
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