A TALKING BIBLE CROSSING THE LINGUISTIC BARRIER

We are thrilled to read the testimonials from people receiving and using their Talking Bibles. I’m especially impressed with the way people speaking a language other than that spoken by the Talking Bible are impacted.

Let me share two ways in which I know the linguistic barrier is overcome. It happens when someone who is a bilingual person hears and understands. This person is drawn to the message because he speaks both his own language and that of the speaker in the Talking Bible. He understands what is being said.

A second way it happens is when someone who is Christian goes out to play his Talking Bible among people who speak a language other than his own. Among the listeners is a bilingual person. He interprets the message speaking to his village people in their own language.

We learn this from the many reports we receive from people having Talking Bibles in their own mother tongue. The Talking Bible attracts listeners and among them are those for whom a bilingual person among them spontaneously speaks the message in the language of this neighboring people group. The linguistic barrier is overcome and previously unreached people come to faith in Christ as the Holy Spirit gives new understanding and faith to believe.

The Talking Bible is used by the Lord in the hands of ordinary people who overcome the linguistic barrier, resulting in new disciples who speak that other language – new disciples, who in turn, make new disciples as they share their new-found faith in Jesus Christ as they learned it from a Talking Bible through some bilingual person in their village.

To learn more visit www.talkingbibles.org. To increase the number who can receive Talking Bibles speaking their languages, make a generous donation today. It is a wonderful, practical way for each of us to have a hand in taking the gospel to people who have yet to hear – taking the Gospel via a Talking Bible with the fantastic good news of what Christ has done to bring us God’s salvation. Let God be praised that we are among those so blessed to have heard this good news and to have been given the gift of saving Faith. Hallelujah!

Because they need to hear,
Harvey Hoekstra – harvey@talkingbibles.org
www.talkingbibles.org

Goal: A TALKING BIBLE SUNDAY IN THOUSANDS OF CHURCHES TO LEARN MORE AND TO TAKE AN OFFERING TO SEND TALKING BIBLES TO THOSE WHO DO NOT READ AND TO THE BLIND, ON THE WINGS OF PRAYER.