God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though...
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"Bible translators quite rightly get excited about the Bible. However, we need to constantly remember that Jesus did not write a book, he called a community. The purpose of the Bible is to equip and shape that community to be the people that God wants them to be. The community is the purpose,...
"Our vision is so small compared to the Lord's. Where we imagine a hole in the ground—a hole that we might not even get to see filled with water—He sees a haven for the birds and cattle, a garden in the desert. The growth of the Kingdom is largely mysterious to us, just as Jesus told us it would...
—by Adam Boyd
When translating the New Testament, the key question we are always asking ourselves is, HOW do we translate the Greek text into the target language. But there is a secondary question that we must also take into consideration at times, namely, WHICH Greek text do we...
“Bible translation is not an optional missions strategy; it is essential. It is assumed, as we have seen, in central missions paragraphs of the New Testament, and many language groups long for not just part of God’s revealed word but for the whole Bible — both New and Old Testaments. Oh, how...
"[Congregations] exist where many of the believers have a Bible in their own language, carry it to church, and sleep with it on their chest as protection from the evil one, but have no ability to read one word from its pages. It is simply not enough to place Bibles in the hands of new believers...
"Each culture develops a world view only complicated enough to explain all of the experiences and information they will encounter in their setting. Missionaries and especially Bible translators encounter the broadest possible range of different contexts in the world." —Greg Pruett
Suppose you are sent to a people who have never heard the Gospel. What would be your plan from the day you arrive? What sort of projects would you undertake?
Follow this story of two men, both assigned to unreached areas.
Mr....
"The Bible begins with a tremendous demonstration of God's ability to create. He miraculously formed the marvelous, orderly universe we see today from a cosmos that was without form and void. In both the physical and spiritual realms, God fixes problems and transforms chaos into orderliness. It...
How big is the world? In terms of people groups without the Gospel, and languages without the Bible, it may be bigger than you think.
Christians are at the forefront in gathering data about ethnicities and languages around the world, for one simple reason: The Church has a global...