Story of God
For thousands of years, stories and oral traditions were the key means for Jewish and Christian people to learn about and experience God. Soma Communities interacts with the biblical narrative through stories as one of our primary ways of teaching and engaging the Word. Often, we use an ancient Hebrew process, now called Storying. This is proving to be very effective with people of all ages in our media-literate, story-oriented North American context. We interact with these stories as a way to understand, experience and connect with God through his Word in community.
Download the Story of God Narratives & Audio
All our Story resources are now on GCMcollective.com. The GCM Collective (GCM = Gospel, Community, Mission) is a partnership of Soma Communities, Kaleo Church (which has become part of Soma) and The Crowded House. You can find resources from all of us on the GCM Collective website and also join the discussion of hundreds of people around the world working to lead gospel-centered communities on mission.
At GCMcollective.com/resources, you'll find:
Storyformed Way: a 10 week experience of the Story for missional communities focused on laying the initial foundation for discipleship--both for those who already believe the gospel and those who are investigating it. This is the version of the Story we use most often.
Story of God: The original 22 narrative set which shows the redemptive arc of Bible that climaxes in Jesus. Audio of the narratives are included--the audio is often very helpful in learning to tell the Story well.
Story of God for Kids: The Story of God edited for children in elementary school.
Story of God Training: Notes from training we do with leaders on the why and the how of Storying.
