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Wycliffe Bible Translators: Racing to Start a Translation in Every Language That Needs One by 2025 A MAGAZINE OF FRONTIER VENTURES A MAGAZINE | missionfrontiers.org ISSUE 40:5 I SEPT / OCT 2018 ISSUE Wycliffe Bible Translators: Racing to Start a Translation in Every Language That Needs One by 2025 KNOWN KINGDOM 653 MOVEMENTS Advance Your Career with a Graduate Degree Online or On-campus MASTER OF ARTS Theological Studies Bible Exposition Bible Teaching Care and Counseling Chaplaincy Counseling Intercultural Studies Ministry Studies Missiological Studies Muslim Studies Teaching (Early Childhood & Elementary Education) TEFL/Intercultural Studies Youth Ministry Leadership MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MASTER OF DIVINITY Bible Exposition EDUCATION SPECIALIST Care and Counseling Chaplaincy DOCTOR OF MINISTRY Ministry Studies Bible Exposition Missiological Studies Chaplaincy Muslim Studies Member Care TEFL Ministry Leadership Youth Ministry Leadership Missiological Studies MASTER OF EDUCATION DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Educational Administration Educational Leadership Instruction & Learning Intercultural Studies =ONLINE =ON-CAMPUS ENROLL TODAY! (800) 777-2227 CIU.edu/apply MISSION FRONTIERS 2018 SEPT/OCT ISSUE BIBLE TRANSLATION Advance Your Career AS WE APPROACH with a Graduate Degree 2025 Online or On-campus What’s Been Accomplished and What Remains MASTER OF ARTS Theological Studies Bible Exposition From the Editor The Power of Prayer Bible Teaching 04 Rick Wood 28 Doug Haag Care and Counseling Chaplaincy Bible Translation Heart Returns on Investment CONTENTS Counseling as We Approach 2025 Melissa Stillman Intercultural Studies 06 Bob Creson 31 Ministry Studies Missiological Studies Muslim Studies There’s an App for That A Desire that Would Not Die Teaching (Early Childhood & 12 Katie Kuykendall 34 Melody Dubois Elementary Education) TEFL/Intercultural Studies Fonts Are Needed Youth Ministry Leadership MASTER OF BUSINESS for Bible Translation? 24:14 Coalition Update ADMINISTRATION 16 Olsen and Raymond 38 MASTER OF DIVINITY Bible Exposition EDUCATION SPECIALIST The Voice of God The DMM Price Tag Care and Counseling Speaking to Siberian Hearts C. 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Contents © 2018 by Frontier Ventures Editorial Office: [email protected] Frontier Ventures is a member of Advertising: [email protected] MissioNexus and Evangelical Press Association (EPA). ENROLL TODAY! VOL.40, NO.5 | SEPT/OCT 2018 Website: www.missionfrontiers.org (800) 777-2227 CIU.edu/apply ISSN 0889-9436 Address: 1605 E. Elizabeth St. • Pasadena, CA 91104 MISSION FRONTIERS SEPT/OCT 2018 THE MOVEMENTS OF TODAY REST UPON THE SACRIFICES OF CENTURIES PAST CONTACT Luther was called to the German Rick Wood city of Worms (pronounced V-or-ms) [email protected] to recant his writings before the BY RICK WOOD Holy Roman Emperor Charles EDITOR OF MF One hundred thirty three years later V. Upon his arrival, Luther was in 1517 an obscure Augustinian greeted like a conquering king with monk named Martin Luther burst an escort of 100 horsemen and onto the world stage by once again thousands of cheering well-wishers. How much do you love the Word challenging the most powerful When Emperor Charles V of God? Would you be willing political and religious leaders of his demanded that he recant his writings to lay down your life in order to day with the simple idea that our on April 18, 1521, Luther replied, not lose the ability to read it? For faith and practice as Jesus followers “I am bound by the Scriptures I have most of us in the English-speaking is based on God’s Word, the Bible, quoted and my conscience is captive world, we take the Word of God not upon the edicts of an all to the Word of God. I cannot and for granted. We have always powerful church or its leaders. Our EDITORIAL will not recant anything, since it is had access to Bibles in numerous final authority is Scripture alone— neither safe nor right to go against translations. But it has not always Sola Scriptura in Latin. conscience.” As Eric Metaxes makes been this way and the Scriptures are clear in his excellent biography of still not available for roughly 1,500 All the power of the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Martin Luther, Luther’s confession language groups that need a New Catholic Church was set to crush at the “Diet of Worms” (diet Testament translation to begin. The this troublesome monk and his meaning assembly) was a turning price that many have had to pay “dangerous ideas.” The problem point in human history where the for the freedom to read the Bible in for these powerful leaders was freedom of conscience was first their own mother tongue has often that Luther had become the most established as a bedrock principle of been very high. popular man in Germany among Western civilization, which lives on Over 600 years ago in 1384 a fearless the common people—more in the founding documents of the scholar named John Wycliffe invited popular than the Pope or the United States. a death sentence by translating the Catholic Church. Luther’s writings This breakthrough in religious New Testament into English for the published with the latest technology of the Gutenburg presses sold freedom that Luther and others first time. Wycliffe believed that it made possible is the foundation was the Scriptures that should be wildly and made the printers rich. Woodcut prints of Luther’s likeness that all Bible translation and the basis for the faith and practice movements to Christ rest upon. of all Jesus followers. Wycliffe was along with Luther’s signature made the first glimmer of hope for those Luther the first “celebrity” of the The 653 kingdom movements th who wanted to read the Bible for 16 Century. It was this popularity multiplying around the world, themselves. He was one of the first and the protection of certain transforming the lives of millions, pioneers of what would become the German leaders that kept Luther growing faster than the overall Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe from suffering the same fate as population, would not be possible died before he could be executed for John Huss who was burned at the without the freedom that Wycliffe, his “crime” of translating Scripture stake in 1415 for spreading views of Luther and pioneers like them have so the Catholic Church dug up his Scripture similar to those of Luther. purchased for us. remains and burned them anyway. 4 MISSIONFRONTIERS.ORG As we seek to translate the Bible the pace of Bible translation. They population. Central to all of into every language that still set for themselves the goal of starting these movements is the focus on needs a translation, we stand a translation in every language that obedience to the Word of God. The on the shoulders of giants like still needed one by 2025. This issue future growth of these movements Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Tyndale of MF is all about what Wycliffe is is dependent upon having at least and thousands of others who have doing to reach this goal. some oral portions of Scripture risked their lives and sometimes available in the languages where As you read through this issue one sacrificed their lives in order to bring these movements are taking thing becomes clear. Technology the Word of God to every people in place. Wycliffe has recognized has enabled translators to not only their heart language. Let’s not take the importance of developing an speed up the translation process but for granted the freedoms that others oral approach to the translation to also improve the quality of the paid so dearly to secure for us. But of Scripture. See the article, “The end product by including a wide rather, let’s honor their sacrifice by Voice of God Speaking to Siberian range of people in the translation completing the translation task that Hearts” starting on page 19 for they so nobly began. process. Increasingly, the people who will use the translation are an example of how oral stories THE PACE IS ACCELERATING becoming active participants in the from Scripture can transform translation process. This improves lives. I do not believe it is just a We are privileged to live in the the usefulness of translation as coincidence that these Scripture- greatest period of Bible translation well as the ownership of it by the centric movements are growing and the world has ever known. Great people who will be using it. It does spreading at the same time that progress has been made over the no good to do a translation if the the availability of the Scriptures last 100 years but it is nothing people who need it don’t use it. both oral and written is increasing. compared with what we are seeing They build upon each other and today. In the year 2000 there were There has been a revolution in Bible serve one another. Both Wycliffe EDITORIAL 366 complete Bible translations. translation over the last 20 years and the 24:14 Coalition have set Today, just 18 years later, there are and that revolution continues to the same end date of 2025 to reach 677.
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