In the fall of 2004, the Master’s Seminary Journal featured a series of articles by staff at the Master’s Seminary on the how the Bible views itself. Each article is written by someone obviously well acquainted with their subject matter and always with a pastoral application in view. Topics addressed were:
Why Scripture is needed [...]
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If you have no awareness of the Petition in the title of this essay, you’ll probably find this essay irrelevant. If you know about it, perhaps you even signed the document, but you will want to read the following very brief explanation of the process of how [...]
There is a prevalent behavior in the church that is deeply rooted, often preached against, and almost always ignored, often by those preaching it. It is deeply integrated in western culture, could perhaps even be considered a foundation, yet with many things man-made, it is diametrically opposed to the gospel. I have been part of [...]
We wanted to have a page that has updated articles discussing the exposé Biblical Missiology has brought before the public about the mistranslations that organizations like Wycliffe, SIL and Frontiers are committing. We will continually update these pages as more articles are written:
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The Petition: Here is the Petition, We [...]
The Fact Check with replies to all of Wycliffe’s comments can be found in its entirety here: Fact Check: Biblical Missiology’s Response To Wycliffe’s Comments On “Lost In Translation”(PDF).
If you have not already, please sign the petition and keep sharing it via email, Facebook, Twitter and your voice with every believer you [...]
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Western missions agencies Wycliffe, Frontiers and SIL are producing Bibles that remove Father, Son and Son of God because these terms are offensive to Muslims.
Some examples:
• Wycliffe/SIL produced Stories of the Prophets, an Arabic Bible that uses “Lord” [...]
PART I: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 1
PART II: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 2
PART III: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 3
Dear Leadership,
We have printed out [...]
Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 3
PART I: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 1
PART II: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 2
In response to our home office asking us our thoughts on IM:
Dear Leadership,
Being a believer in Christ has always been [...]
In April of 2011 my wife and I had three weeks left before flying back to a part of the world where I had grown up. After 39 years I would be living among a people and in a culture that spoke my “heart language”. We had become members of Wycliffe Bible translators, reasoning that [...]
Biblical Missiology writes much about contextualization and its application, both the good and bad. We do this because we believe that a healthy and good biblical theology produces good and healthy biblical missiology. That a good and healthy biblical theology of missions is not only good for you, it is important for you to know [...]
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