Advocacy

The Cape Town Commitment: We Love God’s Word

The role of Scripture In Mission was a special focus at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, Cape Town 2010. The Cape Town Commitment is a statement to follow on from the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Manilla Manifesto…

RichardJanuary 26, 2011

Advocacy

Brazil Forum for Use of the Scriptures in Indigenous Languages

"Praise God for this event where so many people from what Brazil calls the three waves of missions worked together. As one person reported, he heard expatriates, Portuguese MT Brazilians and indigenous people calling the event 'their forum'." This is…

RichardOctober 22, 2010

Advocacy Bible Reading Bible Storytelling Bible Study Bible Translation Culture Language Issues

Colocando a Bíblia em Ação

This is the Brazilian Portuguese version of the book Translating the Bible into Action by Harriet Hill and Margaret Hill. A tried and tested resource that encourages meaningful Bible use in multi-lingual contexts through both written and oral media. Includes…

RichardAugust 24, 2010

Advocacy

Scripture In Mission: Three Major Priorities In Eradicating Bible Poverty

"Bible poverty" is global and it is the result that occurs in any context or setting that blocks or hinders people from having access to the Scriptures in a language they understand well and engaging with them in ways that…

RichardJune 7, 2010

Advocacy

Bible Engagement: a process

"Are you stuck along the way of engaging with the Bible? If so, where? Why? If you're involved in ministry, are the people you work with stuck? If so, where? Why?" Scripture Engagement can be seen as a process: Bible…

RichardApril 27, 2010

Advocacy Strategic Planning

Eight Conditions: a summary in French

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

Advocacy

BibleFresh

BibleFresh was a joint initiative which aimed to encourage and inspire churches across the UK to make the most of the year 2011, empowering Christians to a deeper level of engagement with the Bible. The initiative brought together nearly a…

RichardFebruary 10, 2010

Advocacy

The Bible in the future

"The greatest difficulty is no longer distribution, but appropriating the content of the Bible... There is a need to teach believers to meditate and, as in any learning process, you have to give regular booster injections if you want people…

RichardFebruary 1, 2010

Advocacy Bible Reading

25 Ways to Engage the Bible

Of this I am convinced: This side of heaven there is nothing more wonderful we could ever hold in our hands or engage with our minds than God’s Word as given to us in the Bible. The author describes 25…

RichardSeptember 15, 2009

Advocacy

CABTAL Church Relations Initiatives

It is important for all of the local churches to be increasingly implicated in the translation project for the following reasons: It ensures that the translated Scriptures will be used after the New Testament’s publication, so that there will be…

RichardSeptember 13, 2009

Advocacy

The Cape Town Commitment: We Love God’s Word

Brazil Forum for Use of the Scriptures in Indigenous Languages

Colocando a Bíblia em Ação

Scripture In Mission: Three Major Priorities In Eradicating Bible Poverty

Bible Engagement: a process

Eight Conditions: a summary in French

BibleFresh

The Bible in the future

25 Ways to Engage the Bible

CABTAL Church Relations Initiatives

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