About Us 

Spread The Story, Inc is a non-profit organization formed to share the story of the Bible and the Christian faith. It believes that the stories, parables, prayers, and sayings in the Bible have a unique power to inform, inspire, and transform.

The Founder

Spread The Story was founded by a Presbyterian pastor, Dr. Robert Bohler, Jr. for the purpose of spreading the good news of the Christian faith. He is the pastor of Alps Road Presbyterian Church, in Athens, Georgia. He is married with two boys, one of whom is in college. The other just graduated.

Beliefs

Dr. Robert Bohler is a Presbyterian pastor in the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians denomination (ECO). Their statement of Essential Tenets articulates basic beliefs that are at the heart of traditional and classic Christianity. Their statement of belief serves as the guiding theological principles for Spread The Story, Inc. It can be found at the following link: https://www.eco-pres.org/static/media/uploads/eco_constitution_online6.14.19.pdf, pages 1-9

Why Tell Bible Stories?

A group of missionaries in Africa were working in a prison. After various methods failed, they took a new approach. They gathered anyone who would listen and simply began to tell stories from the Bible. They helped the prisoners think about them, wonder about the people in them, and ask questions. The missionaries did not draw out the moral points for the prisoners, only helped them learn the stories. They encouraged them to go and tell the stories to any other inmates who might be interested. The prisoners began to do that very thing, tell the stories they had heard. Over a year’s time, the missionaries observed a remarkable change begin to take place. They discovered that they did not need to draw out moral points from the stories for the inmates. They were quite capable of finding places of contact with the stories, often ones the missionaries would not have found. They observed that the more an inmate told a story, the more he “owned” that story. By the time a person had told it five times, he began to truly assimilate the story into his life. The missionaries also noticed a change in the overall atmosphere of the prison. As the stories of Jesus and the Bible made their way through the prison, they had a transformative power. The lives of prisoners, even hardened ones began to change. Such was the power of the stories of the Bible under the influence of the Holy Spirit. They discovered that when a person had learned about thirty stories, true transformation was beginning to take place. It evolved that the inmates from the prison began to ask for transfers to other prisons, so they could tell the stories they knew to other inmates and help other prisons experience the same transformation.

The stories from the Bible have power. Spreadthestory.org strives to find ways to share these stories with those who do not know them.

Attributions

Music used in radio ads is from the Youtube Audio Library, “Birds in Flight,” by Dan Lebowitz. No attribution required.