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Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Project Documents Graduate Research 2013 Impact of Storytelling to Effect Life Change at Raleigh Seventh-day Adventist Church Robert Louis Cundiff Andrews University This research is a product of the graduate program inDoctor of Ministry DMinat Andrews University.Find out moreabout the program. Follow this and additional works at:https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dmin Recommended Citation Cundiff, Robert Louis, "Impact of Storytelling to Effect Life Change at Raleigh Seventh-day Adventist Church" (2013).Project Documents. 36. https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dmin/36 This Project Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Research at Digital Commons @ Andrews University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Project Documents by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Andrews University. For more information, please [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in the Andrews University Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses . Please honor the copyright of this document by not duplicating or distributing additional copies in any form without the author’s express written permission. Thanks for your cooperation. ABSTRACT IMPACT OF STORYTELLING TO EFFECT LIFE CHANGE AT RALEIGH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH by Robert L. Cundiff Adviser: Rollin Shoemaker ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH Project Document Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary Title: IMPACT OF STORYTELLING TO EFFECT LIFE CHANGE AT RALEIGH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Name of researcher: Robert Louis Cundiff Name of degree of faculty adviser: Rollin Shoemaker DMin Date completed: June 2013 Problem The Raleigh Seventh-day Adventist Church is a large metropolitan congregation with many media saturated professionals, young adults and busy students. As such, spiritual growth is hampered and preaching is degraded from a transformational experience to an informational event. This result is often an inability to engage the preaching event so that life change can happen. Hearers need to listen actively to experience transformation. Method Research was conducted in which new storytelling methods were field tested from the Raleigh pulpit. The program included these steps: 1. A hypothesis was developed to guide the research and provide a rationale for data collection and evaluation. 2. A baseline survey was administered to establish a benchmark regarding listener’s perceived spiritual growth and appreciation of the stories they had previously heard from the Raleigh pulpit. 3. A four-part sermon series was preached in which two new storytelling methods were used. 4. An exit survey was administered to collect data from which to measure differences in listener response. 5. The data was evaluated, conclusions drawn and recommendations made. Results One hundred and thirty-three participants completed the baseline survey while 128 completed the exit survey. The data collected is contrary to the hypothesis and suggests that the hypothesis does not hold. Listeners with Two Year or technical college degrees seemed to have the greatest appreciation of the series while more educated listeners seemed to have had less. Men responded more favorably to the series than they did on the baseline survey and reported less variance. The Latino population reported the most appreciation for the series, and the 18-30 year old population reported the least appreciation for the series. The 61+ population had the reported the highest variances of any group. Conclusion The project led to five recommendations; 1) I will develop a seminar on how to be a good pew listener; 2) More research needs to be conducted about how men grow spiritually; 3) Further study should be done to explore the potential response of men to more emotive matters; 4) In future research, I will be more mindful to isolate new Adventists as a separate population/demographic; and 5) More research needs to be conducted to understand how education affects listener response so that preaching can maximize its effectiveness with this population. Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary IMPACT OF STORYTELLING TO EFFECT LIFE CHANGE AT RALEIGH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Project Document Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Ministry by Robert Louis Cundiff June, 2013 © Copyright by Robert L. Cundiff 2013 All Rights Reserved IMPACT OF STORYTELLING TO EFFECT LIFE CHANGE AT RALEIGH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH A project document presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Ministry by Robert L. Cundiff APPROVAL BY THE COMMITTEE: _______________________________ _________________________________ Adviser, Director, DMin Program Rollin Shoemaker Skip Bell _______________________________ _________________________________ Ben Maxson Dean, SDA Theological Seminary Denis Fortin _______________________________ _________________________________ Loren Seibold Date approved DEDICATION This work is lovingly dedicated to my mother, Patsy Cundiff, whose unselfish life paved the way for my ministry and taught me innumerable lessons about the Kingdom of God, the value of which can only rightly be understood once we cross the threshold of heaven’s gates. iii
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