Languages and Bible Translations.
I am very much interested in Languages and Translations of the Bible.
Learned today with great interest from a leaflet of the Bible Society that there are 6909 languages spoken in the world.
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—There are 2479* of these languages with all or part of the Bible.
—451* languages have a full Bible.
—1185* languages have a full New Testament
*figures as at 31 12. 08
Our next film for 2010
At The Kaitaia Community Centre
LITTLE THEATER
Friday, 9th April – 6.30 pm
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
A film by Faith Morgan
“If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller
Last Saturday in the morning the town of Kaitaia was full of people.
I saw a man standing in the middle of the town almost opposite the Post Office leaning on a walking stick and holding a Bible in his hand and talking.
For quite some time I stood behind him hearing him proclaiming the Gospel. What a joy to listen to him. Eventually I had a chance to talk to him. So far as I know I have never met him before , but he looked into my face and knew that I was a brother in Christ.
He is 81 years of age, received a permit to stand there and preach the Gospel 50 years ago and has done that for the last 50 years.
He gave me two little booklets from the “Bible and Gospel Trust”.
The exclusive Brethren are preaching the Gospel on Commerce Street in Kaitaia……. and not only in their official meeting halls!
IS THE SERMON READY FOR HEARING?
“Whatever the aim is, here is Jowett’s golden counsel:
‘I have a conviction that no sermon is ready for preaching, nor ready for writing out, until we can express its theme in a short, pregnant sentence as clear as crystal.'”
John Deane in his book “Your preaching…, a force or a farce?” on page 29!
“Good arrangement will make the discourse more pleasing. We may illustrate from the way a meal is served. You can serve the food daintily on the plate and the very arangement of it looks appetising; or you may serve it as though you had stood six feet away and thrown it on the plate, and then it is an ugly unappetising mess.”
John Deane