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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode of God Speaks we explore the connections between orality and advent. Rather than being a presentation, this episode features a brief story performance and a discussion on how Jesus' incarnation impacts all of our communication.

Embodying the Spoken & Artistic WordWith Special Guest: Roce Anog-Madinger:Jesus shared stories. We know that. But Jesus must have also listened to the people’s stories for 30 years before he started teaching using parables, symbols, or metaphors. Roce will be sharing how the arts helped her listen to people’s hearts by ‘listening’ to their arts.Together with her husband Chuck, they head the Institutes for Orality Strategies based in Manila. Roce is also currently a PhD student in Indigenous Studies in UP Baguio. She volunteers part time for SIL Philippines and is teaching the Orallity & the Arts course at the Asia Graduate School of Theology.

Episode 9 - Orality and Real Life Relationships:Putting Theory Into PracticeHaving been involved in Christian ministry since a teenager, Jim is dedicated to making God look good, Jesus well known and Christians well trained.For that reason his dedication to the Lord targets ministries emphasizing the practical. Orality fits nicely into that niche. He has been trained in two storytelling ministries and several years ago launched his own, WalkTalk, telling Bible stories as one walks through life. Trainings in WalkTalk have taken him far and wide. WalkTalk enables people to learn Bible stories easily and tell them effectively for the purpose of Christ-like discipleship: telling stories to persuade, equip and mobilize.https://saturationglobal.wordpress.com/toolsoverview/storytelling/

In this episode, we explore the questions that have shaped much of our traditional engagement approaches to Scripture. Dr. Tom Steffen and Dr. Bill Bjoraker will help us discover how oral hermeneutics invites us to reconsider our key questions as we seek to understand and communicate biblical message.

To fully appreciate orality, it is critical to deepen our understanding of the Hebraic communication paradigm. In this episode, Bill Bjoraker & Tom Steffen will explore God's intentional engagement with the children of Israel through meaning-filled expressions such as symbol, ritual, and materiality. 

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture—S. HauerwasThis webinar seeks to explore how engaging oral hermeneutics naturally leads to fresh ways of theologizing that can complement systematic and biblical theology. Building on previous episodes, the discussion will explore how orality and character theology allow for powerful connection and application between biblical characters of old and our lives today.