Principle 1: Don't Wait Until it's Over

If we wait until the book or entire NT/Bible is finished until we begin with Scripture Engagement activities we've left it too late. SE needs to begin right at the beginning of a project by studying the world view of the people group then beginning to:

Identify barriers
Find some bridges
Start looking for door-openers (things you might not expect people to be open too, but which seem to be very effective)

Only then should you choose which products to work on.

Here's another tip: you don't need to translate a whole book before producing some SE products. Just find out which portions are going to be useful and work on those. What if they want an entire Bible at a later point? Fantastic! By then they'll be a whole group of pastors and other trained believers to work on it. What we're aiming on now, at the start, is impact.

Oh, and don't forget to include some local arts in your planning.

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