Ever wondered why so few people seem to understand the Gospel these days? For many, the problem is that they have simply never had the whole story clearly explained from the beginning — and so they are left confused.

Today, soul-winners world-wide are rediscovering the effectiveness of sharing the Gospel chronologically — starting in Genesis. That is what this movie does. The approach is wise and effective. More souls are being won as a result!

POWER of Chronological Story Telling

Missionaries world-wide are rediscovering the effectiveness of sharing the Gospel by utilizing the same chronological Bible story telling presentation used by Jesus on the Emmaus road.

In fact, no matter how primitive or sophisticated a society may be, the best way to communicate truths such as the Gospel is still through the avenue of story telling.

New Tribes Mission is an example of an organization that moved from the traditional missionary approach of topical teaching to much more successful chronological Bible story telling. They now deliver the Gospel beginning with the foundational stories that present: The Creator God, humankind’s creation and fall, and people’s need to trust God’s provision of a substitutionary sacrifice.

Teachers begin in the Old Testament using Bible stories that point to the lost condition of all people, and of God’s promise that one day, a Savior would come to provide salvation for all humankind. After several months, the teaching of the New Testament stories of Jesus begin. At that point, even previously unreached people-groups easily recognize Jesus as the promised Savior from God.

Missionaries who switched to “chronological Bible story telling” report that instead of waiting many years for their first convert among unreached people groups, they now see an 80% conversion rate in only a few months—with evidence of changed lives!

Why is this method so important?

Unfortunately, most people only hear bits and pieces of the Bible, and never really understand how it all goes together. No wonder so many are confused about what the Bible and the Gospel is about and what it all means. They have simply never had the whole story clearly explained from the beginning, in correct order. Too many Sunday school teachers skip around throughout the Bible and fail to give students the true flow of history to provide context and clear understanding.

Paul Humphreys of GoodSeed says:

“There is a lot of talk today in ‘church’ circles about how little people know about the Bible… Biblical illiteracy is not a new trend. It has been around a long time.

It seems almost impossible to have an accurate concept of God apart from the knowledge of certain foundational biblical stories.

The biblically illiterate need to begin with an understanding of who God is, and where they are in relationship to their Creator-Owner–truths set forth in the pages of the Old Testament. They need to know these things before we can expect an accurate response to what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross.” (GoodSeed Gleanings, No. 6, Sept. 2000)

The apostles Peter and Paul understood this long ago. It is much like the difference in the Bible between evangelizing the Jews and the “Greeks” (the non-Jews). When the apostles shared the Gospel with Jews, they could start with a presentation of the evidence for Jesus being the Messiah. But the story of Christ sounded like foolishness to the “Greeks.” Why?

They lacked a foundational understanding of who God is, where the world came from, sin, death, and God’s plan. That is why in Rome, at Mars Hill, Paul started at the beginning when he shared the Gospel.