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:
Biblical Missiology:
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 [...]
Lost In Translation: Sign the Petition
Sign the petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/lost-in-translation
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 [...]
Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 2
PART I: Letters from a Missionary Wife, Part 1
J and her husband (also J) have been in ministry to Muslims for 16 years. They have seen much fruit in follow-up ministry in North Africa, as well as in media ministry and training nationals to create radio broadcasts [...]
“So what do you do?” asked the curious student. “I am an ambassador,” I replied. “For the Canadian government?” he queried. “I didn’t know you were in the diplomatic service…how do you get a job with them anyway?” Another student, curious about the conversation raised his hand and asked sheepishly, “Well what is an ambassador [...]
There and Then
The Book of Revelation, unfortunately shrouded in mystery and confusion, is perhaps the most practical book in the Bible. It is the text God used to launch forth an army of martyr witnesses that neither Imperial Rome nor intransigent Judaism could intimidate or silence. This army, the church of [...]
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