Ping!
Spiritual deadness translates into a lack of passion for the Bible.
A lack of reading the Bible leads to spiritual deadness.
If your churchgoers don’t have a passion for reading the Bible it is because they are spiritually dead.
And, NYer, in response to your tagline, one somewhat interesting "translation" of the New Testament which is a bit different (but based on the RSV-CE New Testament) is this one ===> Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible New Testament (Audio CD)