"The Bible addresses issues that missionaries don’t. People in different situations see things in the Bible that others miss. Missionaries come with a whole load of cultural baggage and they will never be able to see the Bible in the way that people from a very different culture will. By making...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
"We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed." —Elisabeth Elliot
Saturday, August 1, 2020
"One of the great blessings of being involved in Bible translation is that you get to wrestle with expressing God’s word in other languages and as you do, you begin to see things clearly that were, up till that point, somewhat opaque." —Eddie Arthur
Saturday, August 1, 2020
"One of the abiding values of language acquisition is developing the capacity to listen well. Most missionary training programs focus almost entirely on teaching missionaries what to say with very little emphasis on learning to listen well. However, as anyone who has been a missionary knows,...
Saturday, August 1, 2020
"When we look at the New Testament in its entirety and especially when we start to get to grips with the Old Testament, we see that God’s people are called to serve and to advocate as well as to preach the Good News. Indeed, the whole modern concept of the separation of the physical and...
Saturday, August 1, 2020
"You cannot love someone across the border until you have loved someone across the street." —Jerry Ireland
Saturday, August 1, 2020
"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
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
"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...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
"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...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
"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
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