Christian Storytelling with Zach Leighton | Ep 102

What role does Christian storytelling play in deep discipleship?In Episode 102, Brian talks with Zach Leighton, founder of Reliant Creative and co-founder of Kingdom Stories, about the importance of story, testimony, and narrative in the life of the church. Zach has spent more than a decade helping churches, ministries, and nonprofits around the world communicate more faithfully and effectively through story.This conversation returns to the Discipleship Dilemma from Season 2: your story matters. Becoming more like Jesus is not only about knowing His heart more deeply; it also involves knowing our own hearts, histories, wounds, joys, conflicts, and transformations. This is the old theological idea of double knowledge — knowing God and knowing ourselves.Zach argues that the church has largely lost the practice of storytelling. Much of modern Christian communication centers on teaching, doctrine, apologetics, data, models, and strategies. Those things matter, but story reaches the heart in a different way. Jesus taught through story. Scripture is filled with story. Human beings are formed by story.Brian and Zach also explore the hero’s journey, testimony, vulnerability, the difference between salvation stories and lifelong sanctification stories, and why every follower of Jesus has a story worth telling. Christian storytelling is not just a marketing strategy. It is a discipleship practice, a way of bearing witness, and a means of helping people recognize the transforming work of Jesus in their own lives.Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠http://soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/