Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
After arriving on the coastal city of Casablanca (north Morocco), Jan and I were anxious to make it to the heart of the North African country. With signs and voices only offering Arabic, we navigated our way to the train station and three hours later we made it to the bustling city of Marrakech…the heart …
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This is the last part of the story. Thanks for jumping in and I hope it can be a helpful example of how to start putting storytelling to use within your teaching context. Feel free to “pirate” this story, amend it for your audience and initiate some dialog on the myth of Redemptive Violence, Forgiveness …
If you’re just jumping into the story, catch up here: Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 In the past month, Charlie hadn’t brought up Jesus’ third way a single time. Yet Kevin couldn’t get it out of his mind. So much of what he knew about “Christians,” the Bible, and the responses of Christians …
Today, we move from the nitty-gritty character/plot development of the first two parts and move into the art of integrating Scripture/theology into the story. If you missed early parts of the story, here you go: Intro, Part 1, Part 2. The next day, a well-dressed older fellow walked into Kevin’s jail cell. Kevin hadn’t said …
The story continues…Check these out if you missed them: Intro and Kevin and Charlie: Part 1 Kevin was eighteen years old when he heard about a rumor going around the high school about his fifteen-year-old sister, Tara. Some of Kevin’s friends had heard an eighteen-year-old boy named Cory calling Tara a whore and saying that …