Understanding Scripture

The Drama of Scripture

Finding our place in the biblical story
Craig Bartholomew, Michael Goheen (2014)
Many of us have read the Bible as if it was merely a mosaic of little bits - theological bits, moral bits, historical-critical bits, sermon bits, devotional bits, narrative bits. But to read the Bible in such a fragmented way…
Richard
September 10, 2009
Bible Reading

One-to-one prayer and Bible reading

Colin Marshall
If I had to hazard a guess as to how many Christians engage in one-to-one Bible reading and prayer, I would say less than 1%. I have no data on this; it's just a hunch. This seems strange if it…
Richard
August 31, 2009
Bible StorytellingWomen

God and Woman

A Chronological Bible Storying Model For Storying the Good News To a Primarily Oral Culture Muslim Women’s Worldview
J. O. Terry (1998)
...where the men focused upon the action in the story and in the broad strokes of doctrinal truth, the women focused upon relationships, feelings and emotions of the story characters as related to themselves, and family structure. There was a…
Richard
August 31, 2009
Film and Video

The Gospel of John

The Life of Jesus
The Gospel of John is a 2003 epic film that recounts the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. This three-hour feature film follows John's Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from the other Gospels or omissions…
Richard
August 31, 2009
AudioFilm and VideoRadio

Media in Church and Mission

Communicating the Gospel
Viggo Søgaard (1993)
Pilot programs have clearly shown that extensive word and concept explanations are often needed if a non-Christian is to understand the written text as read on a cassette. The explanations will need to be provided in a format that is…
Richard
August 22, 2009
Bible Reading

Why Christians Read Their Bibles Poorly

Gordon Fee (2005)
We miss a great deal of the New Testament... because we are so poorly informed about the Old. And the point to make here is that the first readers of these New Testament documents, those whose heirs we have become,…
Richard
August 20, 2009
LiteracyOrality

Dependence on Literacy Strategy

Taking a Hard Second Look
Herbert Klem (1995)
It is possible that the literacy based approach as applied in non-reading communities reaches best those who most want to escape from the traditional culture into the modern world of wealth and technology, but it may not be successful in…
Richard
August 17, 2009
Audio

The Emergence of Audio-Scriptures in Church and Mission

Viggo Søgaard (1995)
Need orientation is very important for audio-Scriptures and with that follows careful research of the intended audience. When the apostle Paul spoke in a synagogue, he could freely quote from the Old Testament, but when he taught the Gentiles in…
Richard
August 17, 2009