Olketa Tokpiksa wea Storyim Samting Audience Savve Long Hem

HEM important tumas for eni tokpiksa wea iu iusim for fitim information wea iu storyim. Bat, for olketa tokpiksa for helpem audience minim samting, hem mas fitim olketa tu.

Hao nao kaen audience wea iu story witim savve helpem iu for disaed wanem tokpiksa for iusim? Wanem nao Jesus Christ duim? Nomata hem story long olketa crowd or olketa disaepol bilong hem, Jesus no iusim olketa example bilong living from olketa kantri aotsaed long Israel. Audience bae no savve long kaen example olsem. Olsem example, Jesus nating storyim living bilong royal famili bilong Egypt or religion bilong India. Nomata olsem, olketa tokpiksa bilong hem storyim samting wea pipol long evri kantri savve minim. Hem story abaotem wei for sewim kaleko, ranem bisnis, taem man lusim spesol samting, and for attendim marit feast. Hem minim fasin and feeling bilong pipol, and hem iusim datfala savve. (Mark 2:21; Luke 14:7-11; 15:8, 9; 19:15-23) From main preaching waka bilong Jesus hem for pipol bilong Israel, planti taem olketa tokpiksa bilong hem storyim samting wea part long evriday living bilong olketa. Dastawe hem storyim kaen samting olsem agriculture, wei wea olketa sheep lisin long shepherd, and wei wea pipol iusim skin bilong animal for keepim wine. (Mark 2:22; 4:2-9; John 10:1-5) Hem storyim tu olketa example long history wea pipol savve abaotem—creation bilong first man and woman, Flood long taem bilong Noah, wei wea Sodom and Gomorrah distroe, and dae bilong waef bilong Lot. (Matt. 10:15; 19:4-6; 24:37-39; Luke 17:32) Waswe, iu tingting gud tu abaotem olketa samting wea audience bilong iu savve abaotem and kastom bilong olketa taem iu chusim olketa tokpiksa?

Waswe sapos iu no story long wanfala bigfala grup, bat long man wanwan or maet tu-thri man nomoa? Trae for chusim wanfala tokpiksa wea barava fitim datfala smol audience. Taem Jesus witness long wanfala Samaritan woman long wanfala well klosap long Sychar, hem storyim “living wata,” wei for ‘nating thirsty moa,’ and ‘wanfala springwata wea kamaot for givim laef olowe’—olketa tokpiksa wea barava join witim waka bilong datfala woman. (John 4:7-15) And taem hem story long olketa man wea wasim olketa fishing net, hem chusim tokpiksa abaotem fishing bisnis. (Luke 5:2-11) Long tufala taem hia maet tokpiksa abaotem agriculture hem fitim from hem nao main waka long datfala area, bat wei wea hem storyim samting wea olketa wanwan duim hem barava helpem olketa for minim hem! Waswe, iu trae for duim olsem?

Jesus trae for helpem “olketa sheep wea lus from haos bilong Israel,” bat hem markem aposol Paul for go no long Israel nomoa, bat olketa Gentile nation tu. (Matt. 15:24; Acts 9:15) Waswe, diswan minim Paul changem wei wea hem story? Yes. Taem hem raet long olketa Christian long Corinth, hem storyim resis, wei for kaikai insaed olketa temple bilong idol, and olketa bigfala march taem olketa win, olketa samting wea olketa Gentile bae minim.—1 Cor. 8:1-10; 9:24, 25; 2 Cor. 2:14-16.

Waswe, olsem Jesus and Paul iu chusim gud olketa tokpiksa and example for iusim long teaching bilong iu? Waswe, iu tingim living and samting olketa wea lisin long iu duim evriday? Hem tru, world distaem hem barava difren from first century. Planti pipol savve long world nius thru long radio. Planti taem olketa savve long samting wea happen long olketa difren kantri. Sapos hem olsem long ples bilong iu, hem no rong for iusim olketa nius story olsem insaed tokpiksa bilong iu. Nomata olsem, planti taem samting wea barava muvim pipol hem samting saed long living bilong olketa seleva—hom bilong olketa, famili bilong olketa, waka bilong olketa, kaikai olketa kaikaim, weather long area bilong olketa.

Sapos iu need for explainim gud tokpiksa bilong iu, maet datwan minim iu storyim samting wea audience bilong iu no savve abaotem. Kaen tokpiksa olsem savve isi tumas for haedem point wea iu laek teachim. Sapos olsem, maet audience rememberim tokpiksa bilong iu bat no datfala truth from Bible wea iu trae for teachim olketa.

Winim wei for iusim olketa tokpiksa wea hard tumas, Jesus iusim olketa simpol samting bilong living evriday. Hem iusim olketa smol samting for minim bigfala samting and olketa isi samting for mekem mining bilong hard samting kamap klia. Taem hem joinim samting wea happen evriday witim olketa truth bilong Bible, Jesus helpem pipol for minim olketa spiritual truth wea hem teachim and for no forgetim. Hem nambawan example for followim!