Grief Stories: Good News for those with Stories of Misfortune and Grief

Because of the preference for no teaching, the book includes only the stories and a brief preface for the storyer. The concept for the book was based on a doctoral study that detailed the practice of certain Asian women who gathered to tell their misfortune stories as a way of discharging their emotions. The stories are arranged chronologically but can be used in any order as a resource. The chronological arrangement provides a subtle evangelistic drift that grows more intensive toward the latter stories. The story set has found wide use not only in Asia but among women of other cultures and worldviews.

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About the Book

The Grief Stories met the need of providing witness to women who were not interested in any “Christian” teaching. These women were, however, eager to hear stories of other women who suffered misfortunes of the same type as their own. The concept came from a book telling about the practice in certain Asian countries where women gathered to tell their misfortune stories as a way of discharging their emotions. At the conclusion of each story, a comment showed how God redeemed each woman’s life. The stories have a subtle evangelistic drift that grows more intense toward the latter stories. The stories are provided without formal or organized teaching to lessen perception of unwanted teaching in these resistant cultures. But good stories naturally provoke good discussions and this opens the opportunity for the patient Bible storyer to overcome the original barrier to Christian teaching.

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Author: J.O. Terry
Series: Bible Storying
Tag: Gospel
Publisher: Church Starting Network (CSN)
Publication Year: 2012
Format: Paper
Length: 172
ASIN: B007SNSH0M
ISBN: 0982507933
List Price: 21.95
eBook Price: 8.95
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J.O. Terry

J.O.Terry served under the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as media missionary to the Philippines beginning in 1968 and later serving as the Asia-Pacific Region media consultant until retirement in 2003. Experience with Chronological Bible Teaching soon led to a need for greater emphasis on teaching the Bible stories along with appropriate learning activities for nonliterate peoples. Terry developed a number of widely used Bible story sets and led workshops and conferences in many countries. J. O. Terry serves as publisher of the Bible Storying Newsletter and the Journal of Bible Storying and continues to teach Bible storying and shares his experiences with others. Terry is convinced that Bible storying methods are effective in winning the lost to Christ, developing the saved in Christ, starting new churches, and in training their oral leaders.

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