We can’t read the Bible!

Help! Hardly anyone can read the translated Scriptures. What can we do?

This is a one-page poster or course handout. It reminds us that if a lack of literacy skills is cited as a barrier to Scripture use, then the solution can be found in both literacy and oral strategies. Good Scripture use promotion strategies will often need to move in both of these directions.

So, if people say “The New Testament is not being used because people can’t read it!”, the response is not only “OK, we’d better do some literacy so they can read it”. It should also be: “OK, we need to explore ways of them getting to hear it as well.”

We can’t read the Bible! (606 KB)