God Speaks Lausanne Orality Network

Orality and Theological Education in the Majority World Context: Addressing the Oral Oversight
God is raising up theologically astute Majority World leaders who care about equipping their leaders with appropriate tools to engage the oral-reliant communicators in their communities. One of those thought-leaders is Dr. Ezekiel Ajibade, senior lecturer at Nigheria Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Ajibade will be joining us to discuss some of the concerns but also some of the practical steps that he and others are taking to help institutional gate-keepers recognize the necessity of orality for theological education in the twenty-first century. Such strategic conversations carry implications not only for places such as Nigeria but also for many other Majority World contexts. 

Re-Imagining Bible Translation Through YWAM and Orality: An Interview From The Ground-level 
In this last year, Vikki Wright and the YWAM Arua (Uganda) team have followed the Holy Spirit into the whole new world of Oral Bible Translation (OBT).  They have already experienced God do some tremendous things and Vikki will be joining us to share in more detail how YWAM is trying to faithfully and orally promote Scripture access and engagement among groups of people with little to no Scripture in their mother tongues. 

For more information on the next generation of Bible Translation, read more here:
https://lausanne.org/about/blog/the-living-word-for-living-languages 

We are excited to have Dr. Ray Neu with us again this month on our God Speaks webinar/podcast. He will be modeling for us how to apply contextualized, oral hermeneutics to a biblical passage. This episode promises to be engaging and practical. We welcome you to join us as we seek to better communicate God's Word today.

This month, we will continue our experiential learning together as we explore how God shapes different people's character in the Bible through various life experiences. Specifically, we will examine the intersections God offered to people and how they responded to those opportunities and the choices they made. Such investigations will contribute to developing arobust oral character study.
Dr. Ray Neu has learned some of the more practical and pragmatic aspects of doing Oral Hermeneutics in an African context. In the next several episodes, Ray will help us examine what the Bible itself says about interpretation as we explore treasures for today by considering the progressive development of characters found in the Bible.
This promises to be eye-opening, insightful and fun.

In their book, A Return to Oral Hermeneutics, Steffen and Bjoraker reengaged us in a vital discussion for today both in terms of missions as well as better Bible understanding for all of us.
Ray Neu has learned some of the more practical and pragmatic aspects of doing Oral Hermeneutics in an African context. In the next several episodes, Ray will help us examine what the Bible itself says about interpretation as we explore treasures for today by considering the progressive development of characters found in the Bible.
This promises to be eye-opening, insightful and fun.

Want to reach the world for Jesus? Most of the world's population is oral-preferenced. That means we need to incorporate orality into all of our mission strategies. But how do we do that? We begin with prayer. 
Join us for this next episode of God Speaks: Conversations on Orality and the Gospel as we explore the relationship between orality and prayer even as we PRAY together for the world's Oral Majority.