In recent years, there has been a dramatic change in how people approach learning. They are as equally talented and intellectual as other generations, but they respond to a different type of teaching. Analytical logic no longer dominates teaching/learning. It has now been found that people can receive a superior education by listening to stories and learning to tell them.

Another major difference in our society is how few Bible stories people know. They have been raised in homes where Bible stories were not emphasized. They attended churches that felt Bible stories were only for children. And yet the children’s program stopped training teachers to tell captivating Bible stories. Several years ago, John Walsh was teaching BibleTelling in an adult Sunday school BibleTelling class. He asked them, “Why are you enjoying BibleTelling so much?” One answer was, “We are learning stories that our pastor assumes we all ready know!”

BibleTelling is simply a rebirth of an old method of teaching the Bible. It is not new. For thousands of years, ordinary people did not have the privilege of owning a Bible. Therefore, church teachers carefully taught these stories to adult converts, and they passed them down to their children.