75 Percent Story

Yeah so I blog now. Its funny why I do though, or not. I was in a seminar class this Saturday and the guest speaker presented to us the idea of how we can effectively reach people when we are teaching, sharing a sermon, and/or lesson. He said that he conducted a survey, and asked people to share how they had come to know Christ. 75% of those people shared that moment of their life in the form of a story, while only 25% shared the principle behind that moment in their life.

He went on to show us that in Jesus ministry close to 80% of his ministry was done through parable aka story telling. He brought up the observation of how people's body language changes in church, classes, and other settings when a story is being told. Something about a story truly catches our human attention. So, he encouraged us to incorporate heavy story telling into our teachings; but how? That leads me to the whole blogging thing. He said each week we should be able to go somewhere and write down things that happened in our life, or in life situations around us. Then we should be encouraged to go back and see how those particular stories (funny, encourage, crazy, stupid, whatver...) can be connected with a story or teaching in the Bible. Through these stories he said principle can be found . So yeah now I blog, cuz it gives me a place to write down life's stories without using a pen and paper; that makes my hand tired.