Listen: God's Story

Over the years, Jesus' followers have learned lots of ways to tell God's story. They have learned how to translate the Bible into other languages, so that people can read God's story for themselves. And, they've also learned how to tell God's story without writing down any words at all.

You've probably seen one of those ways of telling the story without writing. It's called the Wordless Book. You might have gotten it painted on your face at the fair or made a bracelet out of it in Sunday school. The Wordless Book uses colors to tell God's story.

Black is for sin, the way that our hearts look before Jesus. Red is for Jesus' blood when he died on the cross. White is for the color of our clean hearts after we believe in Jesus and what he did for us. Green is for growing as Christians by learning more of God's story, praying, and trusting the Holy Spirit to help us be brave and patient and kind. Yellow is for the streets of gold, where we get to be with Jesus forever.

It's a pretty easy thing to remember, and it has been a way that Jesus' followers have told God's story, over the last hundred fifty years or so, to kids or grown ups who maybe don't know how to read or don't want to read.

Jesus' followers have also learned – again – how to tell God's story the way that it was originally told. They have learned how to start at the very beginning, with Adam and Eve and use just their words to tell the story, one little piece at a time, almost like actors in a play that you come back to again and again. Actually, it's a little like the way that your Sunday school story tellers come in each week and tell you a little more about Jesus, but without any of the fancy or silly parts. This way is just God's story...

Download a PDF of the entire story here and click on the activity pages below to download.