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Listen - "Wake Up to Orality and Literacy" 1:51 Making Disciples of Primary Oral Learners - A “must-hear” for anyone to understand the impact of orality and literacy on the Great Commission. It includes the dynamic 10 Step Process for communicating biblical truth to oral learners, as well as a workshop on chronological Bible storying, and how to give an oral culture an oral Bible. (Six CDs). Module 1 may be ordered separately as a unique training tool to help literates enter the world of the oral learner. Excerpts Dr. Avery Willis: When I hear “word,” I think of scratchings on a piece if paper. But in the Bible, you keep hearing, “Thus saith the Lord,” “the Lord spoke to them,” and it said, “God spoke to them through many different ways in the past and now in this day, He speaks through His Son.” And so John says, “And the Word became flesh.” So the spoken Word of God became the Living Word of God, which is in a lot more sense real than scratchings on a piece of paper. And then what we have later, of course, with our Bible are the writings on the piece of paper that authenticate or at least replicate what happened in the reality when Jesus became the Word. Dr. Grant Lovejoy: The living Word, the spoken word is more than adequate to begin to sustain a strong Christian movement. We could tell stories from a number of places. I know for instance in the Philippines and again in a location in Southern Asia , we have an agricultural center that, among other things, teaches illiterate farmers biblical stories along with their Agriculture training. I visited one of those locations in South Asia and saw how these men were taught to go back, go to a new place to do the agricultural teaching to a village. And at night, after the day's work was done, they would communicate the stories that they had learned, unobtrusively, inoffensively, and people were curious. They had some time at night on their hands and they'd listen to the stories. And out of that would come a growing curiosity about the Christian message, then eventually professions of faith in Christ, and then those who professed faith in Christ began meeting regularly, and eventually they formed a group, a congregation, and eventually a pastor.
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