There are three sides to the BibleTelling approach to stories. First we encourage people to learn Bible stories in a way that embodies the essence of the written text. We think there is a time and place for embellishing Bible stories, but it is not BibleTelling. There is amazing power in learning, telling, and hearing a Bible story told accurately.

As the story is learned, we believe it is important to internalize the overall flow of the narratives without word-for-word memorizing. A person should tell a Bible story like he tells what he had for breakfast. He sees it in his mind, and then simply tells what he sees. So it should be with a Bible story. A person envisions the story, and then tells it.

The third side of learning a story is telling it to someone else. A story is not totally brought into a person’s memory until it has been told five times.