title: Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling: Creating Fictional Stories that Illuminate the Message of Jesus (Youth Specialties (Paperback))
author:  Jon Huckins 
description: Jon Huckins is a veteran youth pastor and public school teacher who is now on staff with NieuCommunities, a collective of missional church communities who foster leadership and community development. After much international travel and study in the Middle East, Jon focuses much of his writing and graduate studies at Fuller Seminary on ethics and social advocacy. Further, Jon writes for Youth Specialties and loves to tell and live out new stories with teenagers. He lives in San Diego with his wife Jan, daughter and three legged dog. Contact: http://jonhuckins.net or jon.huckins@gmail.com
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  My Journey into _A.D. 33_
  
  TRUE SPIRITUALITY cannot be taught, it can only be learned, they say, and it
  can only be learned through experience, which is actually story—all else is
  only hearsay. Surely this is why Jesus preferred to use stories.
  
  For ten years, I dreamed of entering the life of Jesus through story, not as a
  Jew familiar with the customs of the day, but as an ou