god language and mission
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A lecture on the Background to Bible Translation and Christian mission.TRANSCRIPT
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God: Communication and
Language
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WHAT IS THE
MOST
FUNDAMENTAL
THING WE CAN
SAY ABOUT
GOD?
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GOD IS TRINITY
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"Here the monks gathered every Sunday to hear
a sermon from the Abbot, except on Trinity
Sunday owning to the difficulty of the subject."
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The Biblical Conundrum
• There is One God
• The Father, the Son
and the Spirit are
God
• The Father is not
the Son or the
Spirit and the Son is
not the Spirit.
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THE TRIUNE
GOD IS
RELATIONAL
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We are made in God’s image
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The story
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MISSION!
God reaching out to draw people
into relationship with himself.
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The Bible: A Missional Book• It serves God’s
missional purpose by revealing himself to people to draw them to him.
• It is a living history of his mission to humanity.
• The Bible and mission are two sides of the same coin.
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My prayer is not for them alone. I
pray also for those who will believe in
me through their message, that all of
them may be one, Father, just as you
are in me and I am in you. May they
also be in us so that the world may
believe that you have sent me.
John 17:20,21
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We are
called to
share in the
Trinitarian
relationship!
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As the
Father has
sent me, I
am sending
you.
John 20:21
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“Those who have come
to know the life of God
through the missionary
activity of the Son are
themselves given the
privilege for becoming
'co-missionaries' with
God.”
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VARIETY
Three in One and One in
Three.
Father, Son and Spirit
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The Christian
Church
delights in
Variety!
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Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
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• Mission
• Revelation
• Variety
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BIBLE TRANSLATION!
Mix them
together and
what do we
get?
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We do Bible
translation
because
God is the
God He is.
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Christianity seems
unique in being the
only world religion
that is transmitted
without the language
or originating culture
of its founder.
Prof. Lamin Sanneh
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Christianity does not
belong to any
particular race or
nation.
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Nor does mission
work!
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It’s all about relationships.