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Kid Communicator Secret #11 - Tell Stories, Not Just Lessons

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Author/Source: Karl Bastian

Topic: Stories

Jesus taught through stories. Discover how a well-told story can lodge truth deep in a child’s heart.

Capture Hearts Through Narrative

Jesus taught through stories. Discover how a well-told story can lodge truth deep in a child’s heart.

“Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.” — Matthew 13:34

I once heard a seminary professor say, “The shortest distance between the truth and the heart… is a story.” That stuck with me. And it rings even truer in children’s ministry.

When we simply explain truth, we engage the mind. But when we tell a story, we engage the heart. And that’s where transformation happens.

As the great Christian Educator, Howard Hendricks, once wrote, “Stories are the language of the heart.”

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