Many in Kenya’s Bibleless people groups believe their languages have no value… “A man in the Sabaot community of Western Kenya prayed aloud in his mother tongue in a gathering. Afterward, another man stood up and apologized to God for him praying in a language God wouldn’t understand; he then prayed in Swahili so God […]
Month: May 2012
From one of my favourite bloggers, Brian Russell.
Culmination!
It was the last day of Wycliffe’s International gathering. For seven days, five hundred leaders of Bible translation organisations from over sixty five countries had met together to pray, to discuss and to seek God’s will for the future. As the conference closed, the chair called for a time of prayer and suggested that people […]
Bible and Mission Links 19
Bible Translation I haven’t a clue why a piece entitled Issues of Race and Gender in Bible Translation: Interfacing with Spirituality, should turn up on a hairdressing blog! This is a challenging paper that not all readers of Kouya Chronicle will find comfortable, but it’s good to be stretched from time to time (and, who […]
I’m not so much concerned about how the Bible came to us as I am about whether the next generation will actually read it! I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but my favourite verse in the Bible is 2 Timothy 2:2: You have heard me teach things that have been confirmed by many […]
Mission: The Trinity 1
The most fundamental thing we can say about God, is not that God is love or God is light (or any other simple statement from John), but rather ‘God is Trinity’. You won’t find this simple statement in the Bible, but the truth of God as three-in-one runs through the Bible and underpins everything else. […]
Mission: Start With God
The rationale behind Christian mission is not that we have a task to complete, nor even the needs of people who don’t know Christ. God, his character and interaction with humanity should be the starting point of any consideration of ‘the why’ of mission. A few days ago, I posted a sketch which captured my […]
Missiological Blogs
I’ve been asked to draw up a list of blogs which I feel are essential reading for anyone who is interested in missiology; rather than do so in an email, I decided to post my thoughts here for public consumption. The problem with a job like this is that (as I have said elsewhere) missiology […]
Magazines and Bananas
One of my most memorable experiences working with the Kouya people in central Ivory Coast came early on while we were trying to learn the language. I wasn’t at all prepared for the answer I got to what seemed to be a simple question. All I wanted to know was the Kouya word for ‘banana’, […]
Bible and Mission Links 18
Church Planting Krish Kandiah is rather excited about the prospect of Saddleback Church from the US planting a new church in London, but Matthew Phipps is somewhat more cautious and Simon Cozens is somewhat sceptical. You can make up your own mind by reading all three posts. Bible Translation Bible translation has been getting quite a […]