![]() In his book on Bible reading, Eat This Book, Eugene Peterson writes about his motivations in writing The Message. At least that’s how my friend has found it. But as a doorway into serious Bible reading, it has been a gift to the church. It’s a rendering of the text, an attempt to make the Bible accessible in the common vernacular. It’s not a reliable translation if that’s what you need. There are many criticisms of The Message, some of them justified. So I changed it again, this time to The Message. It was better, she said, but still somewhat esoteric. I went into the settings and changed it to an NIV and asked her to read a section. When I looked at her phone it was clear the app she had downloaded used the KJV as its default translation. ![]() I enquired what translation she was reading, and she looked at me as if I was stupid. “But it makes no sense,” she said, exasperated. ![]() Of course, the correct answer is to say, “Read the Bible,” which I did.Īnd she took me up on it! A few days later she told me she had taken my advice and downloaded a Bible app on her phone and had tried reading it. “Where can I read more about what Jesus said?” she asked. A death in her family had prompted her to ask questions about life beyond the grave, so we talked about faith in Jesus, and she showed a great deal of interest. Recently, I had a conversation with someone regarding salvation and the afterlife. ![]()
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