Como líder global nascido no Brasil, radicado nos EUA e atuando em solo africano e latino-americano, vejo em Pontos de conexão mais do que um método; vejo um manifesto para a internalização profunda das Escrituras. Madinger e Qalb desconstroem o imperialismo da escrita para restaurar uma comunicação holística, permitindo que a mensagem não apenas chegue, mas também “faça morada” no coração das comunidades orais. Para nós, consultores e mentores em Tradução Bíblica Oral, esta obra é importante por três pilares fundamentais: 1) Propriedade Cultural: Valida que a verdade bíblica só é plenamente compreendida quando deixa de ser um objeto externo (texto) para se tornar uma história encarnada e viva. 2) Fidelidade Orgânica: Demonstra como símbolos, rituais e artes orais garantem a precisão teológica sem sacrificar a ressonância emocional. Replicação Sustentável: Foca em como a Palavra penetra o ethos de uma nação, garantindo que a mensagem seja replicada de forma natural e autêntica de geração em geração. Este é um material indispensável e estratégico para quem não busca apenas traduzir palavras, mas facilitar um encontro transformador entre o Criador e as nações, respeitando a identidade de cada povo.

Este livro é um recurso essencial para quem deseja comunicar o evangelho de forma mais fiel à realidade cultural e humana de grande parte do mundo.
A obra mostra que a oralidade não é apenas “contar histórias”, mas um modo completo de aprendizagem e discipulado, envolvendo história, símbolos, rituais, memória e espaço.
Com contribuições de missiólogos e educadores globais, o livro ajuda pastores, missionários e mobilizadores a superar modelos excessivamente centrados na cultura escrita, oferecendo caminhos práticos para uma missão mais contextual e transformadora.
É uma leitura indispensável para quem quer ensinar e discipular de modo que alcance não apenas a mente, mas também o coração.

Pontos de conexão é um convite oportuno e profundo a repensar como comunicamos, ensinamos e discipulamos num mundo cada vez mais plural e híbrido. Com rigor acadêmico e sensibilidade pastoral, a obra revela como história, símbolos, rituais, memória e espaço moldam a fé viva e a transmissão do Evangelho. Leitura essencial para líderes, educadores e missionários que desejam reduzir o abismo entre mente e coração, teoria e prática, Palavra e vida. Um livro que não apenas informa, mas transforma a maneira como nos conectamos com Deus e com as pessoas. Alegra-me ver esta obra finalmente em nossa língua portuguesa! Aproveitemos!

Connecting Points, Volume 2, is an essential resource for church and mission leaders. Bridging the orality gap to minds and , its insightful blend of arts, logic, grouping, time, and respect offers practical strategies to accelerate the Gospel and the Great Commission. By engaging multimodal communication, emerging technologies, and evolving respect systems, this volume equips ministers to navigate cross-cultural complexities with sensitivity and innovation. Thoughtful projections on future directions and leadership formation make it indispensable for those committed to faithful, contextualized evangelism in a rapidly changing global landscape. A clarion call for adaptable, respectful ministry.

Orality has gone through definitions and redefinitions. Connecting Points has, perhaps finally, opened up the real essence of orality and broken down the presumed wall between it and literacy. With this book, communication is becoming sweeter, and its process, much more simplified. I am personally excited that this book is out, and I hope everyone who picks it up connects with the authors and begins to communicate like Jesus did.

I don’t usually read a book in one sitting. However, once I started reading Volume 1 of the Connecting Points series, I couldn’t stop reading it! As a fairly recent “convert” to the orality movement, I was fascinated by the book’s contents that focus on story, symbols, rituals, memory, and space—and their role, as the book’s subtitle indicates, in “bridging the orality gap to minds and .” The editors, Charles Madinger and Danyal Qalb, have done a masterful job of presenting the essential elements of orality in such a user-friendly format. The book’s contributors—Steffen, Law, Moon, Dinkins and Mātenga, all experts in their respective areas of orality—make complex concepts easy to grasp. I highly recommend this book for all who are interested in orality and in working with oral and oral-preference peoples and cultures. I look forward to Volumes 2 and 3 with great anticipation!

Connecting Points is a valuable resource as it reminds us of all the things we love about orality. These three volumes creatively blend text, voice, and AI in an engaging narrative around the multifaceted nature of orality. So often, the complex realities of oral communication are oversimplified or overlooked altogether. Connecting Points challenges this oral desensitization by turning our attention to behold afresh the beauty, power, and interconnectivity of key oral communication principles such as story, memory, space, time, or even logic. Drawing from an array of disciplines, the authors provide a robust exploration of each oral trait in its own inherent glory, but then further, they place that theme into the wider oral communication mosaic. Whether an old friend to orality or a new acquaintance, Connecting Points displays orality in full color, stirring an excitement for how oral communication is inherent to what it means to be human.

In 2024, UNESCO surveyed that one billion people worldwide, including adults and children, are unable to read or write, and many more can read and write but struggle to use these skills effectively. This book by Madinger and Qalb addresses today’s Christian missions challenge, offering ways to present the Living Word in understandable and relatable ways.

As we consider the global landscape and future trajectory of theological education, we must continue to elevate orality. An ever-increasing number thrive through oral methods of learning and teaching, and if we are to faithfully serve Christ’s Church in this era, we need works like Connecting Points. I encourage all who are involved in equipping future church leaders to become more aware of the power of orality through the insights and expertise presented by the contributors to this volume.

This volume, and the rest of the series, is a wonderful manifestation of people expressing themselves naturally in ways that make sense in their respective communities. The stories are told by masterful storytellers, relating important truths in narrative that ring true for those they chronicle as well as for literate, academically bound recipients. May a reading of this book and those to follow enable you to experience the truth of orality in the context of your reality and understand, at a visceral level, the value of receiving the “word of the Lord” and God’s presence with you.