Eternal Purpose Resources are a free-to-license library of formational discipleship resources, created to empower practical, spiritual, missional formation of messianic communities, by equipping leaders and learners to ‘bridge the discipleship gap’
Launched publicly in Kuala Lumpur, 2024, the Eternal Purpose Initiative aims to
Encourage, inspire and facilitate publication of Eternal Purpose Resources in 10 ethnocultural contexts » in 10 gateway languages » in 10 years.
Towards this initial aim, the Eternal Purpose Resource Library is published and made available to contextual network participants, in three complementary formats:
Digital books » facilitating contextual engagement
Print-ready artwork » facilitating contextual production;
Unformatted plain text » facilitating contextual translation.
Digital books
» Contextual engagement
Beautifully-typeset PDF study books » provide a clear, colourful, highly-readable and accessible format that draws-in and engages students, literally and devotionally, study-after-study.
Easily distributed to individuals
Use collectively in discussion groups
Access via personal computer, tablet, smartphone
No cost outlay for facilitators or learners.
Print-ready artwork
» Contextual production
Printer-ready artwork » enables contextual licensed reproduction in print of individual Resources.
Full-colour cover artwork | with printer marks | monochrome option
Monochrome inner pages | typically 48-52pp.
International license | allowing commercial distribution.
Plain text
» Contextual translation
Each Eternal Purpose Resource is originally authored and stored as a ‘master-text’ in plain, unformatted text. From this master-text, fully-typeset version of the Resources are generated by a computerised high-quality typesetting process that feeds the master-text through a computer program, or ‘TeX’ template (‘LaTeX’).
This is significant to the work of translation. Initially, the plain-format master-text is subjected to translation. The translated plain-format master-text is then subjected to the TeX typesetting engine, using a same or similar template, in order to generate a typeset version of the translated Resource, to an equivalent standard as originals.
Contextual translators may alternatively opt to utilise their own translation, typesetting or origination software, to achieve similar results.
How might Resources be used in your context?
Engaging with Resources
Each individual Resource incorporates four biblically-themed Studies, typically organised into four sub-topics — each Resource thus including 16 discrete topical sections, concluded with Scripture readings and reflective discussion questions.
— How might Eternal Purpose Resources be used?