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Making Disciples of Oral Learners CREATIVE ACCESS STRATEGIES

Making Disciples of Oral Learners CREATIVE ACCESS STRATEGIES . By Theo Asare Team Leader, MANI Orality Track President, Theovision International.

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Making Disciples of Oral Learners CREATIVE ACCESS STRATEGIES

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  1. Making Disciples of Oral LearnersCREATIVE ACCESS STRATEGIES By Theo Asare Team Leader, MANI Orality Track President, Theovision International

  2. We recognize that 60% of the African population can’t, won’t, or don’t hear the Gospel when we share it simply because it’s coming to them through literate means they don’t understand or relate to.

  3. Targeting Oral Learners • The widest most promising opportunity to share our faith with the 60% of the African population

  4. Oral Learners • By oral learners I mean those who learn best and whose lives are most likely to be transformed when information comes to them in oral forms.

  5. Telling God’s Story • Oral learners transmit their beliefs, heritages, values and other important information by means of storytelling. • Storytelling fits perfectly well with the African cultures.

  6. Storytelling works best with Islamic communities

  7. Telling God’s Story • Telling God’s Story is the key that unlocks the hearts and minds of oral learners, • The key that transform their world-view as individuals and as people groups, • The key that makes the Gospel comes alive to them.

  8. The Challenge • Oral Learners are the majority. • Oral learners think differently from those of us trained in literacy.

  9. The oral learner way of thinking is concrete. • The pictures tell a story.

  10. Missing the Mark • We have been missing the mark among non-literate oral learners for hundreds of years. • Oral strategy is shaping the world of missions, giving birth to new mission movements which are centered on oral learners.

  11. God has provided a way to communicate powerfully with oral learners, a way they can hear and understand, a way that captures their heart and minds. • Storytelling

  12. Jesus’ Method • He did not say anything to them without using a story. . . Mark 4:34 (NIRV) • Jesus used stories to communicate his message

  13. How? How do you share the Word of God with people • who are not literate learners? • who don’t have a Bible? • who can’t, don’t or won’t read? or • who may not even have a written language? • How do you disciple new believers who are not literate learners? And how do you train non-literate Christian to teach, to lead, to train, to plant churches and most of all to reproduce? How do you share the Gospel to the two thirds of Africa’s population who are oral learners?

  14. The way is to unleash the power of God’s stories among oral learners by igniting in the lives of hundreds of thousands story tellers the desire to tell the life transforming stories of God among their own people .

  15. We call upon the Church to devote energies, strategies, and resources to provide access for all oral learners to engage the entire Word of God through storytelling and audio Bible, so that every tribe, every tongue, and every people group may hear His voice!

  16. For more information visit: www.InternationalOralityNetwork.com www.oralbible.com

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