Reviewing the SOFM: Week 8

One of the more difficult aspects of taking the gospel cross-culturally is discovering how people best learn.  One thing that makes it so difficult is that close to two-thirds of the world's population are oral preference learners, which differs extremely from our western learning style.  The majority of people in the remaining unreached people groups  are oral preference learners, many of whom have no written language.    One of the best ways to present the gospel to these people is in story form.  So, we had a week in the SOFM about oral Bible presentation.  We had a teacher come from the Onestory partnership to teach on crafting story sets and to impart principles to be a successful storyteller.  There are many organizations like New Tribes Mission, who I first heard of the concept from, using chronological Bible stories to present the gospel to unreached peoples.  Onestory is unique in the fact that it isn't a single organization, but rather a partnership between Wycliffe, Cru, YWAM, the IMB, and others.  I suggest you check them out, and see what cool things are happening in unreached people groups through storytelling.