In this post, I want to share with you a new and innovative resource for getting to know other people in your circles of influence. Life as We Know It is a very creative, relational approach to bringing people together to share their stories. I have never seen anything like it, and believe it has enormous outreach potential in our highly reclusive world. I want to encourage you to check out the site and get a copy of the tool for your consideration. 
Jerry McCorkle, of Spread Truth ministry, recently shared with me some of the details about this tool. I have known Jerry for a few years. In fact, you may watch an interview that I did with him back in the day when I wore ties. Today, I have asked him to share briefly about Spread Truth (you may hear more in the video) and Life as We Know It.
Who is Spread Truth?
We are a ministry committed to partnering with local churches to provide gospel-centered training, resources, and experiences. We have been taking teams of believers to New York City for over 20 years, training them to share their faith to bring back to their own neighborhoods and communities. Our chief resource is The Story, a gospel booklet that presents the good news of scripture—from beginning to end—in a digestible and faithful story form. Our other training and resources expand on the idea of knowing, living, and sharing God’s Story. These resources include The Story, The Story ESV Bible, The Story Guide training material, and our newest, outside of the box, resource Life as We Know It.
What is Life as We Know It?
Life as We Know It is Spread Truth’s new community-building resource. It is designed to bring people into deep, meaningful, and organic relationships using the power of personal stories. Ultimately, it is a tool to help Christians love their neighbors both inside and outside of the church with “no strings attached”. Life as We Know It takes you through your personal stories beginnings, obstacles, hope, and future and invites you to listen to the stories of others—with incredible, transformative results.
How do you use Life as We Know It?
You can use Life as We Know It in just about any context that you can think of. The “My Story” booklet—a “blank book”—guides you through your group’s beginnings, obstacles, hope, and future. We have designed this resource to let the stories guide the context. Any time you can gather to talk—over coffee, in a small group, at a youth retreat, in a business meeting—you can use Life as We Know It. We have provided some basic guides for leaders, but it is designed to adapt to where you are.
Life as We Know It can serve as a “what’s next” for evangelism training—encouraging long-term, relationship-driven evangelism and discipleship. It can be an effective outreach tool for your neighborhood. And it can even serve as an effective team building activity for businesses, organizations, or churches. The possibilities are limitless.
Why is this important?
We communicate in stories, not bullet points. Our stories make us who we are and direct our paths, but sadly we don’t know the stories of our friends, neighbors, and family. If we are to take the command of Jesus to “love our neighbors as ourselves” seriously, we must be serious about building relationships.
We live in a time where people are disconnected and isolated from God and one another. To share the good news of Jesus Christ we need to share our lives and our stories. We believe that Life as We Know It is a tool that has the potential to help many people do just that.
For more information or to order Life as We Know It go to http://spreadtruth.com/life.
