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Russ Ramsey — How Writing Helps You Read Scripture

Pastor Writer: Conversations on Reading, Writing, and the Christian Life

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The Power of Storytelling

I think of storytelling as a form of art is you can say a whole lot more through a story or through something that's well told than just the content of what you said. And so I tried to do with the books was tell them in a storyteller's voice because I think that you, you know, story,. Jesus used story, that was his primary method of teaching and there are over 50 parables he told. It's kind of a Trojan horse for truth, that you can sneak doctrine theology concepts, teaching calls for humility, correction, you can sneak those things past the gates of self-defensiveness in the form of a story. The prophet Nathan did this with

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