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.

We western Christians have had access to God’s Word in our own language for generations. We have seminaries, books, Bible study guides. These all are rich and have deeply impacted not only our lives, but our culture. Many of our freedoms and laws are based on our Biblical heritage. God’s Word not only brings us hope for the future, it impacts our life today.

There are over 2300 language groups for which no Christian has ever attempted to provide God’s Word. Our apathy is as amazing as the apathy in England toward the slave trade 200 years ago.

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