Using pre-stories to attract people into the Big Story

Several Muslim men kept coming into a restaurant operated by a Christian man and his wife. The men would often swap stories, so the restaurant owner decided to tell some stories of God’s power from the Bible.

After a few meals and story-swapping times together, one of the men said, “These stories of yours are really good, but it seems that they are from a bigger story.” The owner said, “That’s right. Would you like to hear the Big Story?”

When the men agreed, the owner started at Genesis and began week after week telling the stories chronologically through the Bible. After about six weeks, the men asked, “Does your wife know these stories too?” When he said that she did the men arranged for their wives to come and hear the Big Story from her. Soon four of the men and their wives accepted Christ and began evangelising among their network of friends using the Big Story.

Taken from the book, “Truth that Sticks: How to communicate Velcro Truth in a Teflon World”, Avery T. Willis and Mark Snowden , Navpress, 2010. p. 109-110