{"id":832,"date":"2015-02-24T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=832"},"modified":"2015-02-27T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:40:19","slug":"a-printed-talisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2015\/02\/24\/a-printed-talisman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Printed Talisman"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some parts of the world people have the Word of God, but lack one important skill necessary to understanding it: the ability to read.\u00a0 It’s hard for those of us from cultures where reading is a given to imagine this, but it’s true.\u00a0 Imagine all the work it takes to translate the Bible.\u00a0 Think of the years of language learning, acquiring cultural insight, and checking the final product.\u00a0 Think of all the hours needed to establish a church.<\/p>\n

… And then imagine the missionaries handing over the Bible and leaving.<\/p>\n

In places where the tribal people are strong readers, the church has thrived.\u00a0 In areas where there are few or no readers, the Bible is of no value.<\/p>\n

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A Yanomami man in South America, studying his Bible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are places in the world where young believers carry around a copy of the Bible in their own language in hopes that it will keep them from getting sick or will ward off evil spirits.\u00a0 Their Bible is nothing but a talisman, because they cannot be fed from it.<\/p>\n

I believe that the Holy Spirit guides the believer in all truth.\u00a0 I believe that where no Bible is present, Christians can still grow and learn.\u00a0 But I also believe that God chose to have his words written down and that he knew exactly what he was doing.\u00a0 Having this letter from our Father is a gift, and we must share that gift along with the gift of salvation.<\/p>\n

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Until the Cubeo people learn to read, they cannot feed themselves from this beautiful book, translated into their heart language<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Would you consider supporting Literacy and Bible Translation?\u00a0http:\/\/usa.ntm.org\/projects\/translation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some parts of the world people have the Word of God, but lack one important skill necessary to understanding it: the ability to read.\u00a0 It’s hard for those of us from cultures where reading is a given to imagine this, but it’s true.\u00a0 Imagine all the work it takes to translate the Bible.\u00a0 Think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2692,652,58,352],"class_list":{"0":"post-832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-bible-lessons","8":"tag-literacy","9":"tag-prayer-requests","10":"tag-translation","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}