Insider Bible Translations: What Christians don’t know can hurt the Church (Encore)

Christian Emergency Podcast

You probably never heard about Insider Bible translations. Don’t worry. Few Christians, pastors or church mission committees have. But it’s past time we learn about them and the risks they pose.

Insider Bible translations remove or change Scriptural terms in an attempt to make them more attractive, or less offensive, to the Lost. These well-intentioned efforts have quietly spread into several missional contexts. But is it proper? How are Christians to make sense of what can be an intimidating, technical issue?

Fortunately, help has arrived. The Arlington Statement on Bible Translation was published and provides a simple framework to draw clarity from the confusion.

On this encore episode of the Christian Emergency Podcast, Andy dives into these important issues with two amazing guests from Horizons International: Pierre Houssney, their executive director, and Seth Vitrano-Wilson, their director of biblical translations.

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To learn more about resources mentioned in this episode, see the following.

Arlington Statement on Bible Translation: https://arlingtonstatement.org/.

Horizons International: https://www.horizonsinternational.org/.

Journal of Biblical Missiology: https://biblicalmissiology.org/.

Engaging Islam: https://www.engagingislam.org/.

Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts. Edited by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant Greenham.

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