Speaker illustrates the power of storytelling in teaching scripture

And it's so this image is scandal. It's a scandal. It's a scandalous story. And, and I think, I think anyone who hears the good news of the gospel would use the same word. It's. The scandal is how amazingly good and kind and merciful and forgiving God is. When all the other people were saying, no, God says yes, I, I'm assuming there's probably a few teachers who are listening to this and thinking, how in the world am I ever going to teach this? And then you're going to look in your scriptures and you're going to read it and you're going to get a little bit more confused. It doesn't, it's not really easily spelled out. Like, you can't just read it. Like, you can't just like, send your class into the verses and read it. But a long time ago, David was my seminary teacher. And I remember like five lessons because of my bad memory, not because David's a bad teacher, but this is a lesson that I will never forget for the rest of my life. And I remember walking in and David didn't have us open up our scriptures and he didn't like, sit us down and like, go through verses. David just told the story. Like, he, like, sat us down and he was like, I have to tell you the craziest story I've heard. And like, none of us even knew class had started. And then like, he just like started telling us and all of us were like, losing our minds. And like, he kept being like, what would you guys say to her? Like, what would you, like, if you were him? Like, if you were like, what advice would you give to him? And all of us were like, she's like, so invested in the story. People yelling, kick her to the curb. Yeah. Throw her out. Like, it was chaos. Block her number. Yes. And then by the end, he was like, this is. And then like, kind of like explained, like, this is like exactly what David did in this episode. And so if you're a teacher and you're like, I have no idea how to teach this, that would be. My advice is, is just like, tell the story like a story. Like, go through and like study it. And you might need another translation's help, you might even need Google's help or like, any. Literally, like, just be like, help me understand what's happening here. Re Listen to David tell that eight times. And then like, work through it, whatever, and tell it like a story and then unpack it with your class. Because this is one of the most unbelievable stories in scripture that helps us believe in a God that seems too good to be true. And that's why you need it is because there are people in your class that are thinking to themselves, God would never love someone like me. God would never choose someone like me to be his kid. God would never take me.