Stories
s: 'He taught by using stories, many stories'
o and a: He used stories to teach. Stories are inexact, open to interpretation, personal, subjective, indirect, metaphorical. We don't need to be afraid of being ambiguous when we teach. Sometimes its better. If its annointed, it can still reveal truth.
He also used many stories. That's the key. When you use a collection of stories, a collection of arts, the connections and relationships and paterns are what reveal the truth, the main points, and disregards the irrelevant. Each story or piece of art doesn't have to communicate every element of the point you're trying to make.
P: Lord God, please help me to be bold in my art. To have the courage to be ambiguous. Please annoint my stories and art and communication so that it always carries your truth. Help me to use the kind of communciation that will best reveal you.
o and a: He used stories to teach. Stories are inexact, open to interpretation, personal, subjective, indirect, metaphorical. We don't need to be afraid of being ambiguous when we teach. Sometimes its better. If its annointed, it can still reveal truth.
He also used many stories. That's the key. When you use a collection of stories, a collection of arts, the connections and relationships and paterns are what reveal the truth, the main points, and disregards the irrelevant. Each story or piece of art doesn't have to communicate every element of the point you're trying to make.
P: Lord God, please help me to be bold in my art. To have the courage to be ambiguous. Please annoint my stories and art and communication so that it always carries your truth. Help me to use the kind of communciation that will best reveal you.
