Morgan Jackson VP Faith Comes by Hearing Proclaimer Gospel Great Commission Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 36

Morgan Jackson, Senior VP of Faith Comes by Hearing, on Reaching the 70% of the World Living in Oral-Dominant Cultures

You may want people everywhere to have access to Scripture, yet still overlook how literacy, language, technology, and culture can determine whether someone can actually understand God’s Word.

How can Christian generosity help people hear Scripture in their own language while supporting local churches and believers who can carry the gospel into communities outsiders may never reach?


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Morgan Jackson, Executive Vice President of Faith Comes By Hearing, shares how his family’s ministry grew from distributing cassette recordings of Scripture into a global effort to make the Bible accessible through audio, video, digital technology, and oral Bible translation. His decades of experience have shown him that providing Scripture is not simply about translating words, but about helping people encounter God’s Word in the language and format they understand best.

Morgan explains why communal listening can be especially powerful in oral cultures, where Scripture heard in a person’s mother tongue can reshape churches, families, and entire villages. Faith Comes By Hearing partners with hundreds of organizations and indigenous believers, using solar-powered Proclaimers, Bible apps, gospel films, and oral translation technology to expand access while strengthening local ministry.

He also describes growing collaboration among Bible translation agencies and national churches. By the end, you may see how technology, partnership, and generosity can help remove barriers that have kept millions of people from hearing Scripture in their own language.

What you’ll gain

  • Why Scripture access requires more than simply printing Bibles
  • How hearing Scripture communally can transform entire communities
  • Why mother tongue Bible translation matters for understanding
  • How technology is accelerating access to Scripture worldwide
  • Why indigenous churches are crucial to reaching remaining languages
  • How ministry collaboration can accelerate global Bible translation

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Blank villages, those without a church, were being reached and churches were being planted simply by bringing the word of God for people to hear.”
  • “In 2 Kings 23, the whole nation is assembled, and you have the record of the largest revival in Jewish history from not prayer, not fasting, not singing, but from simply hearing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.”
  • “In oral communities, anything that is important comes to you in a story, parable, proverb, song, or drama, with memory cues. That way you can hold onto it, because you don’t own it until you memorize it.”
  • “We believe by 2033, two thousand years after Christ’s death, we could see a translation complete for every language of the world.”
  • “There are going to be a lot of people who will die getting these translations done.”
  • “The Word of God is spoken… it is written primarily to be heard.”
  • “We’ve experienced the greatest revival in history in the last 100 years and almost nobody knows it.”
  • “This next age is going to be the national [missionaries]. They are going to be asking for tools and resources, and we need to be ready to resource them.”
  • “The body of Christ has become unified around the world. They’ve dropped their banners and are saying ‘Let’s get this job done’.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Matt. 10:11 | When You Enter a Strange Town

11 And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.

Deuteronomy 6:4 | Hear O Israel

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

1 Timothy 4:13 | The Public Reading of Scripture

13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Mark 12:27 | The God of the Living

27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living.

Matt 24:14 | And Then the End Will Come

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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