The Story and Leveraging Technology for the Sake of the Gospel

Abstract

Over the last 5 years, Spread Truth has been developing an evangelistic resource called The Story (not to be confused with the chronological reading plan and supplementary resources offered by Zondervan).  Our hope was to provide a concise explanation of the gospel looking through the biblical theology lens of Creation, The Fall, Rescue, and Restoration.  In short, we wanted to provide the reader with the story behind the gospel in order to make sense of the gospel.  In the past, our ministry had utilized other excellent evangelistic tools that presented the gospel using a propositional truth approach.  Yet, as we interacted with thousands of unbelievers in large urban settings (i.e. New York City), we began to discover more and more people didn’t have a context for the gospel.  They didn’t have a basic understanding of the Bible’s plotline.  Not only unbelievers, but also believers—we found—didn’t understand the basic plotline of the Scriptures.  This led us to write and publish The Story booklet, but not after asking several questions.