What Type of Ministry?
What Type of Ministry? In the Christian world, there is room for all kinds of ministries: Bible Translation, Evangelism, Relief, Development, Publishing, Technology, Education, Media, Christian Growth, Foreign Missions, Support, and Advocacy, to name a few. Where would Wycliffe Associates’ ministry fall in this array? 1. Hmm, Bible translation? Wycliffe Associates, who call themselves ‘one of the world’s leading Bible translation organizations’ [i] , boasts of doing translations in two weeks, with people who have no more than two weeks of training. They are not willing to do the long-term work that Bible translation needs. Their mission statement is ‘Accelerating Bible Translation’, so I guess it’s not Bible translation, or at least not honest, hard-won Bible translation. It’s more like the fast food version of Bible translation: it looks good and fills you up (for now), but you’ll pay for it in an assortment of unpleasant ways later. 2. On the other hand, they