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Articles about the characteristics of oral societies, and how to communicate the gospel to them.

Oral Communication and the Global Recordings Network

The challenge to missions is how to communicate the Gospel message to oral cultures. This involves expressing our message not only in the way they speak, but also in the way they think.

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Orality - Hearing the Gospel

"Language is so overwhelmingly oral that of all the many thousands of languages spoken in the course of human history, only 106 have ever produced literature and the MOST of them have never been written down."

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Stories for All

Bryan Thompson runs the story4all.com website, which is part of a growing network of believers throughout the world who are committed to bringing the Story of God to all peoples in oral form.

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Faith comes by Hearing? About Oral Societies

Bible translation, Audio recordings and the missionary task

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