I don’t know if I ever told you that last year Wycliffe placed second in the Best Christian Workplaces Institute annual staff satisfaction survey for large institutions. Look here for a video clip that talks about Wycliffe, focusing on how Wycliffe is managed.

“Without the Bible world evangelization would be not only impossible but actually inconceivable. It is the Bible that lays upon us the responsibility to evangelize the world, gives us a gospel to proclaim, tells us how to proclaim it, and promises us that it is God’s power for salvation to every believer.

It is, moreover, an observable fact of history, both past and contemporary, that the degree of the Church’s commitment to world evangelization is commensurate with the degree of its conviction about the authority of the Bible. Whenever Christians lose their confidence in the Bible, they also lose their zeal for evangelism. Conversely, whenever they are convinced about the Bible, then they are determined about evangelism.”

John R. W. Stott, The Bible in World Evangelization

What do you think about that? Feel free to comment!

Urgency doesn’t sound like a February word, but it has been on my mind quite a bit. Urgency is not frantic effort, but very purposeful effort. It is effort that is directed by an important cause, an imperative call.

Ruth and I have been in the USA for over three years now, serving Bible translation through recruiting and preparing people to serve as missionaries. And in some ways, serving here has been much harder than serving overseas. It’s been harder because life is so much easier and there are so many more distractions. It is easy to lose perspective, got get sidetracked by a busy schedule and a hectic life.

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Have you seen the previews for the new movie, “Amazing Grace”? It is a dramatized documentary about the abolition of slavery in England 200 years ago.

It is an amazing story – a story of someone who stood up and represented a very marginalized group of people. It was even claimed in Parliament that the Africans themselves were not complaining about the slave trade. Ah, but that was not true.

In a not too dissimilar way, organizations like Wycliffe Bible Translators and Lutheran Bible Translators speak out for a very marginalized group of people.

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