Giving a clear presentation of the Gospel to Buddhists has proven to be challenging for many missionaries. In this case study, Tony shares common struggles of sharing with Buddhists and Tibetans who have a very different worldview, resulting in misunderstandings and confusion. Tony’s team viewed illiteracy as a major problem in reaching Tibetans, so they began using Bible Stories to tell people about Jesus. In doing so, they discovered that the root of many of their other problems was Tibetans’ preference for oral learning. When they started using simple oral Bible Stories, understanding skyrocketed among listeners as the concrete and relatable nature of stories opened hearts and minds to Jesus, and a set of stories built the framework to understand the gospel.
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Tony is a practitioner of Bible Storying. He and his family lived 14 years among Tibetans, developing Bible Story Sets and sharing Bible stories with thousands of Tibetans and Buddhists. Since 2020, Tony has been on E3 Partners Oral Strategies Team helping develop simple, accurate, and reproducible Bible Story Sets among Unreached People Groups while training local believers and missionaries to implement Oral Church Planting Strategies into their work. Tony has also consulted on many Bible Story Development Projects with StoryRunners, ensuring naturalness, simplicity, reproducibility, and accuracy of Bible Stories.
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