http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/12/16/the-power-of-story/ Guiding Students Into Spiritual Formation for the Mission of God Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/12/16/the-power-of-story/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Chris Folmsbee on Storying « Random Bloggings Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:10:58 +0000 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/12/16/the-power-of-story/#comment-759 [...] Tags: Bible, literary analysis, literary form, narrative, story, storying, teaching, Youth Ministry trackback As any long time reader of this blog well knows, I am a huge fan of letting the Bible speak foritself. I tend to want to move away from systematic theology, and simply allow the stories of the Bible to speak for themselves, contradictions and all. Of course, this can be difficult to do because it often requires a change in what people are used to when it comes to youth ministry, but it is vitally important. Chris Folmsbee has an excellent post on his blog about the topic of story and youth ministry. Chris is CEO of Sonlife (or whatever its called now). I was first introduced to Sonlife by Chris Seavey when I was doing my undergrad at Davis College. [...] [...] Tags: Bible, literary analysis, literary form, narrative, story, storying, teaching, Youth Ministry trackback As any long time reader of this blog well knows, I am a huge fan of letting the Bible speak foritself. I tend to want to move away from systematic theology, and simply allow the stories of the Bible to speak for themselves, contradictions and all. Of course, this can be difficult to do because it often requires a change in what people are used to when it comes to youth ministry, but it is vitally important. Chris Folmsbee has an excellent post on his blog about the topic of story and youth ministry. Chris is CEO of Sonlife (or whatever its called now). I was first introduced to Sonlife by Chris Seavey when I was doing my undergrad at Davis College. [...]

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