Hudson Taylor on Missions
Hudson Taylor was a Baptist missionary to China in the 19th Century. He founded the China Inland Mission. His life is a testimony to perseverance, faithfulness and devotion to God.
Below are a few quotes from Brother Taylor concerning the work of Missions.
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply”
“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him”
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed”
“If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China”
“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.”
Bible Translations & Languages
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Rebekah Postupak was kind enough to email me this today. It shows how many language groups still do not have the Bible in their own language.
The worldwide status of Bible translation (2007):
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6,912 |
…the number of languages spoken in the world today |
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2,251 |
…the number of languages without any of the Bible, but with a possible need of a Bible translation to begin |
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193,000,000 |
…the number of people who speak the 2,251 languages where translation projects have not yet begun |
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1,953 |
…the number of translation programs currently in progress for languages without adequate Scripture |
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nearly 80% |
…amount of the world’s remaining Bible translation needs that are located in the three areas of greatest need |
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1,168 |
…the number of language communities which have access to the New Testament in their heart language |
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438 |
…the number of language communities which have access to the entire Bible in the language they understand best |
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6,500,000,000 |
…the population of the world |
Jesus Christ, the Missionary
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(Note from Pastor Dunham: This is a long article that I ran across in my studies today. To see it all, please go the post on our website.)
By E. A. Marshall
An address to the 1913 Graduating Class of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Found in the September 1913 issue of “The Christian Workers Magazine.”
JESUS CHRIST is often considered as a preacher, a teacher, a personal worker, or as a healer; tonight we are to consider Him as a missionary. Among these various callings which may be attributed to Him, that of the missionary stands out pre-eminent. His characteristics, commission and work entitled Him to be placed as the file leader of the whole enterprise. No one who understands the spiritual needs of man, and the righteousness of God, will essay to step before Him and call upon the world’s benighted races to follow human guidance. In person, in teaching, in example and in service, Jesus stands alone and unapproachable; these making him the ideal pattern of the church for all people in all ages and times.
Chaplains resign from duties in protest of order
This was in today’s Northern Virginia Daily. This is a sad day in the Commonwealth of Virginia…
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Chaplains resign from duties in protest of order
Public prayers to Jesus prohibited
By Garren Shipley — Daily Staff Writer
Six of 17 Virginia State Police chaplains have resigned their clerical duties in protest of a directive effectively forbidding them from invoking the name of Jesus during prayers at public events.
The half-dozen troopers, who perform their chaplain’s duties in addition to being sworn law enforcement officers, resigned following an order from Superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty requiring chaplains to offer only nonsectarian prayers at public events.
Flaherty cited a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit earlier this year, in which the court upheld restrictions on sectarian prayer the Fredericksburg City Council placed on its own members for invocations.
“The Colonel respects those chaplains whose convictions and beliefs are in conflict with his request, and is affording those Department chaplains the opportunity to decline participation at Department-sanctioned, public events,” Flaherty wrote.
But the rule doesn’t cover chaplains during private ceremonies or meetings, such as funerals or counseling sessions with colleagues or families, he added.
House Majority Leader Del. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, laid the resignation at the desk of Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
“With one misguided action, the Kaine administration has put the chaplains in an impossible position,” Griffith wrote in an e-mail to reporters.
“To then require those troopers to disregard their own faith while serving violates their First Amendment rights and prevents them from serving effectively as chaplains,” Griffith wrote. “These men had little choice but to resign.”
“To adopt that policy is a disappointing break with tradition,” said Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, who had been in communication with both groups in recent weeks over the issue.
While Obenshain said he hadn’t seen the specific order banning sectarian prayer, the Fredericksburg case would apparently have little impact on chaplains’ prayers.
“It was clear to me that absent a state police policy that there was no First Amendment prohibition against state police chaplains engaging in that,” said Obenshain, whose district includes Shenandoah and Warren counties.
The decision to move to nonsectarian prayers was made by Flaherty alone, according to Kaine spokesman Gordon Hickey, but “Gov. Kaine does support it.”
“Gov. Kaine is a man of faith and has dedicated his life to that service. It’s disappointing that Del. Griffith would make such a a political attack on Gov. Kaine’s faith,” Hickey said.
Del. Bill Carrico, R-Independence, a former state trooper, said the policy amounted to no less than “an attack on Christianity.”
“It aggravates me when public servants act unilaterally out of a supposed fear of getting a complaint, instead of actually having to deal with one,” Carrico said.
* Contact Garren Shipley at gshipley@nvdaily.com61
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