Missions Podcasts
What do you know about missions?
Going into all the world to tell everyone about Jesus is the last thing Jesus emphatically told His church to do. How are we doing? How do we go about this? The podcast below is about helping you think through those things.
These podcasts were generated by Speechify AI drawn on web pages and documents created or shared by Randy Smyth. I gave the AI the source content and a prompt. It grabbed content from the internet to supplement and redirect ideas. Some of it was hostile. Some ideas went wild, creating rabbit holes of information the AI actively pursued to present using unreliable sources. These survived initial scrutiny. Tell me what you think about the content.
- Culture – Why common sense Isn’t common.
- Personal Sacrifice for Others – Commandos for Christ book review
- Teaching People to Read – Why Literacy is Necessary
- Bible Translation – Why Bible Translation Isn’t Academic
- Bible Translation – Why Bible Education Takes Decades
- The Message – The Gospel as Infinite Treasure
- The Person – Why God’s Glory is the Engine of Missions
- Culture Clash: PNG’s Witchcraft Laws
- Culture Clash: Hunting Witches
- Languages: Decoding the World’s Last Unwritten Languages
- Translation: This has a more of a SIL/WBT style academic viewpoint. It has drawn on internet sources far from the original input. (Here is a better resource.) However it is useful for understanding some complexities of translation across very different ways of thinking. The Unintended Consequences of Bible Translation.
- Human Value – The Image of God: The Anchor of Human Value
- Foundations: Why John One is Useless to the Unreached
- Outreach: Why Billions Have Never Heard
- Foundations: Why Missionaries Start Teaching With Genesis
- Unreached Unengaged: The Urgent Letters Begging for Access