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“I thought sharing the Gospel is only about imparting theological knowledge but that’s not it, it’s more of speaking their heart language.”
Regine Mae Besa
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Keep the conversation going around past webinars and journal articles.
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Listening Again: Storying, Participating and Relating
This issue explores how storying, relationships, and communal experience can make spiritual truth come alive for high-orality-reliant communities. It ranges from teaching the Trinity in Brazil’s Xingu region to Bible…
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Emotion Exegesis for Faithful Oral Bible Translation: Understanding the Emotional Dynamics of Scripture (Part 1)
While methods for tackling many of the issues that Bible translators commonly faced have already been refined over the decades, Bible translators have, by and large, not needed to translate…
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A Theology of Orality for the Global Church: Recovering God’s Narrative Revelation
In many parts of the world, people engage in the truth primarily through story, relationship, and shared experience rather than through abstract concepts or written texts. Yet much of Christian…
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Summary: The Prospects of Bible Translation in the Ijebu Dialect for Motivating Christian Discipleship
This is a summary of the capstone project, The Prospects of Bible Translation in the Ijebu Dialect for Motivating Christian Discipleship. The study used surveys and observations with 25 participants…
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Engaging Muslims in Oman Through Orality-Based Teaching
This article examines the use of orality-based teaching as an approach for engaging Muslims in Oman with the gospel. Drawing on over seven years of ministry experience, it explores multiple…
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Bible Storying as a Bridge to Buddhist Communities: Insights from the Field
Giving a clear presentation of the Gospel to Buddhists has proven to be challenging for many missionaries. In this case study, Tony shares common struggles of sharing with Buddhists and…
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