Chronological Bible Storytelling

I was putting together some stories for one of To Every Tribe's missionaries in Papua New Guinea this morning, and I was thinking that it might be cool to post them on my blog. One of the classes we have here at CPCP is called Chronological Bible Storying, and it teaches us how to prepare Bible stories in a simple format for teaching to tribal peoples. It's been an incredible learning experience, and I'm excited to use this out in the field. We did a lot of our teaching in Gavamas, PNG this past February with stories like these. The people are able to rememeber them and spread them around the village. God's glory is being spread through the Gavamas region! Enjoy!

Job (A story of a man named Job)

Job was a good man who had 7 sons and 3 daughters. He was very, very rich. He had many, many animals. Job feared God and turned away from evil.

A day came when all the angels came to present themselves to God, and Satan came with them. God asked Satan if he had seen his servant Job. He told Satan that Job was a good man who feared God and turned away from evil. Satan told God that Job feared God because God had blessed him and made him rich.

God let Satan test Job. On a day when Job’s sons were feasting at the oldest brother’s house, a great wind came and blew the house down, killing everybody inside. Job’s animals and servants were killed, and his camels were stolen. The only servants who were left alive came and told Job all that had happened.

Job said “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Through all this Job did not sin or blame God.

Jesus took the curse of sin

The first man and woman sinned, and because of this, everybody sins. God put a curse on mankind because of this sin. Every single person after Adam sins. Because of our sin we will go to hell.

All of man has been cursed. God had a plan from the beginning to free us from this curse. He sent His son to die so that we would not have to go to Hell and be forever separated from God. Jesus Christ came down to earth, and he was 100% man and 100% God.

Jesus took on our curse. He took our sin and paid for it on the cross. He took our curse and died so that we wouldn’t have to die and be forever separated from God.

Because of Christ, we can be free from this curse if we believe in Him.