Pretty cool ministry. For some reason, at first I wasn't impressed that these guys have translated the New Testament into 329 different languages...but when I started reading the language names and realized I'd never even heard of 98% of them, my jaw dropped onto my mouse pad.
There are a lot of people in a lot of places from a lot of backgrounds that need to hear the Word of God. This is just 1 example of how 1 ministry is trying to accomplish that.
Did You Know?
- 65% of Bible-believing Christians have never read the entire New Testament (www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com).
- 43% of American adults function at or below basic literacy levels – making them incapable of meaningful Bible reading (www.ccclib.org)
- In a survey of more than 500 pastors, 47% cited “lack of time” as the main reason more Christians don’t read the Bible (Phone survey, Hosanna, 1996).
- 58% of the U.S. adult population will never read another book after high school (www.oralbible.com Aug 2007).
- 42% of U.S. university graduates never read another book (www.oralbible.com Aug 2007).
- Over 50% of teens in America believe that Jesus may have committed sins (www.barna.org)
- Many Americans are biblically illiterate!
2 comments:
Thank you for the blog post about Faith Comes By Hearing. God's Word is for all people, regardless if they have the ability to read or the money for a Bible.
Faith Comes By Hearing is grateful that God has called us to this worldwide mission of bringing His Word to all nations in a format, language, and quality they can understand.
Thank you again for your post.
Jon D. Wilke
Faith Comes By Hearing
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