Eight Conditions

SE Guide App

Videos and questions to facilitate Scripture Engagement discussions

The SE (Scripture Engagement) Guide app is a companion to the SE Guide website, containing questions and videos based around the Eight Conditions for Scripture Engagement. The SE Guide is designed to help you understand what will help or hinder…

RichardNovember 7, 2024

Marketing and Distribution Strategic Planning

The Scripture Engagement Guide

The Scripture Engagement Guide is designed to help you understand your situation and decide how to encourage your people to use the Bible. The Scripture Engagement Guide (SE Guide for short) is a web-based tool for local communities to explore…

RichardSeptember 5, 2022

Strategic Planning Training

EMDC Online: Scripture Engagement Courses

Scripture Engagement: Planning for the Journey

A three part series (3 sets of 10 one hour sessions) based around Wayne Dye's Eight Conditions for Scripture Engagement will be hosted on EMDC.online. Continuing to build and expand on long established insights about how people engage with Scripture…

RichardJanuary 18, 2022

Music and Worship Strategic Planning Visual Arts

Participatory Methods for Scripture Engagement

Michelle Petersen (2020)

"By using Participatory Methods, my students have seen all eight conditions for Scripture engagement strengthened, and Kingdom Goals met, working with various communities around the world. Both literate and oral-preference communicators have become more actively involved in creating with and…

RichardJanuary 15, 2020

Strategic Planning

The Eight Conditions Questionnaire

Evaluating the conditions for Scripture Engagement

David Gray (2019)

This questionnaire takes you through each of Wayne Dye's Eight Conditions of Scripture Engagement, asking questions to help you evaluate a particular context. It is available to download as Word documents in both English and French. The process of filling…

RichardJuly 24, 2019

Advocacy Strategic Planning

Eight Conditions: a summary in French

Huit conditions pour l’utilisation des Écritures

Wayne Dye

This is a 7-page summary in French of Wayne Dye's "Eight Conditions of Scripture Engagement". The awareness of the contribution of each of these eight factors can help in developing strategies to promote the use of God's Word. For a…

RichardFebruary 24, 2010

Audio Digital Film and Video Literacy Orality Visual Arts

Scripture in an Accessible Form

The Most Common Avenue to Increased Scripture Engagement

T. Wayne Dye (2009)

The choice of medium can make a difference, and better artistic quality enhances any communication. However, the most important quality is how relevant the message seems to be to the lives of its hearers. If a hearer (or reader or…

RichardOctober 3, 2009

Research Strategic Planning

Assessing Scripture Use Conditions with the Welser Scale

Marcia Welser (2009)

When creating a Scripture use plan how do you get a grip on the pertinent conditions to be able to set goals and create a plan? The Welser Scale is an assessment tool used to facilitate goal setting and Scripture…

RichardJuly 15, 2009

Advocacy Research Strategic Planning

The Eight Conditions of Scripture Engagement

Social and Cultural Factors Necessary for Vernacular Bible Translation to Achieve Maximum Effect

T. Wayne Dye (2009)

The listing of these Eight Conditions or eight categories of factors used as a tool for evaluation can prevent surprises and help the church, missionaries, and Bible translators alike to focus on those activities that are likely to have maximum…

RichardJuly 14, 2009

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning and Scripture Use

Integration of Results Based Management and Conditions of Scripture Use

Carol Jean Gallagher (2009)

"What should we be doing in our language program for Scripture Use?"... Too often, the decision is made based on what the team members enjoy or are good at, what an outspoken individual in the language group is asking for,…

RichardFebruary 11, 2009

Eight Conditions - Scripture Engagement