"You cannot love someone across the border until you have loved someone across the street." —Jerry Ireland
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"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power." —J. Hudson Taylor
"Even though I speak the language fluently, and have perfectly prepared my presentation, and understand all there is to know about culture and worldview, and can discern the personal perspective of the person I am talking to, if I do not have love, I can do nothing." —I Corinthians 13:1 rendered...
"The Christian approach to translatability strikes at the heart of such Gnostic tendencies, first by contending that the greatest and most profound religious truths are compatible with everyday language, and second, by targeting ordinary men and women as worthy bearers of the religious message...
"And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful." —Apostle Paul
Titus 3:14
"What’s ultimately at stake in Bible translation is the praise and glory of the slain Lamb." —Chris Tachick
A thriving church is simply “a body of disciples making disciples.”
—Ian Fallis
(from ETHNOS360 MAGAZINE)
"God does not carry out mission by commissioning a roster of individual contractors, instead, he adopts a family and incorporates them into his family business of blessing the world." —Michael Goheen
"For every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." —Henry David Thoreau
“If we believe that God is the Creator and Lord of history, of peoples, languages and cultures, then we must believe that his Word is not only true, but also promotes justice, liberating the weak and oppressed, and is communicable to the heart of every person, addressed to every human being.” —...