Truth That Sticks: How to Communicate Velcro Truth in a Teflon World by Avery Willis and Mark Snowden was the book that really got me started on the Bible Storying method. Avery Willis was an experienced missionary overseas, and developed this method to disciple oral learners for the overseas field, but later discovered how effective this methodology is in the USA as well. A significant part of the book details his work with a mega church in the Pacific Northwest that has adopted this method for their small group discipleship ministry, and the results they have seen from it. The pastor of that church Jim Putnam has included a chapter in his own book on disciplesip on how Bible Storying revolutionized their approach to discipleship, which had always been a major emphasis in their ministry.
Although Bible Storying is a method that was developed on the mission field for Oral Cultures, it has been discovered to be extremely effective in literate cultures as well. In fact, the younger generations in the USA are rapidly becoming an oral culture, because they do not read and they get most of their information from video and multimedia. They love stories.
One of the best books is Christine Dillon’s Telling The Gospel Through Story. She shares her own journey as a missionary who was not at all impressed with the method until she tried it. She is now an ‘evangelist’ for this method. She also has an outstanding web site with lots of additional videos and resources.
Story Thru the Bible: An Interactive Way to Connect with God’s Word by Walk Thru The Bible is an excellent resource that will help you learn the methodology. It goes through specific stories of the Bible and what questions to ask and how to set up the background info for each.
Basic Bible Storying by J.O. Terry was developed in the context of his missionary experience working with Oral learners. This is one of the earlier works developed by one of the pioneers in the field.
Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus by Jerry Trousdale is a description of some amazing movements of God in Muslim nations through the method of Bible Story telling. This is a great read.
Tell Me A Story: How The World Learns by Joe Musser. I just discovered this one and know nothing about it.
Here are a number of web sites that can be helpful to you:
The International Orality Network