Story Telling

Steve Sims is our Director of Oral Communications Strategies, which is fancy for Storytelling. We're practicing and learning how to tell the stories of the Bible. It's remarkable how powerful stories are and how difficult it can be to tell a good one. One that is even provided for us in God's word. I practice on my four year old, but they are equally affective with adults. As you prepare to tell them by reading and re-reading and studying the story in great detail, you always notice something you'd missed before.

Steve related that very thing to the story of man's fall. In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit. Their "eyes were opened" and they knew they were naked. They sowed some fig leaves together to cover up and then they heard the Lord walking in the garden. At his sound they hid.

What Steve then brought out was fascinating: Our Lord's initial reaction to their devastating disobediance. He asks, "Where are you?" As if He doesn't know. Like an adult playing hide-and-seek with a small child whom he or she hears giggling behind the door. Of course he knows, yet he asks. Then "finding them, He asks, "Who told you that you were naked?" Then after a response to that, He asks, "What is this you have done?"

Steve's takeaway was a fascinating: This is the character of our God. Did He render judgement? Of course, we still feel it today. But look how he engaged his fallen creation initially. Not with a club, nor a rod, nor a harsh word, but with gentle questions.

More on Storytelling the Bible Here.