With new insight, the author advances the radical belief in the need for the Christian faith to be born completely into the culture it enters. T he Wycliffe translators have sensitized us about the God-given right of all peoples to have the Word of God in their mother tongue.
All people have the right to experience the Bible in their birth language.
All of us who have learned another language know that language and culture are inseparable. You cannot properly translate a language just from dictionary to dictionary. Words, expressions, the deepest meanings of idioms are known only as they are understood in a cultural context. Since that is true, then it must also be true that for a people to fully express themselves in the living out of their life in Christ they must be able to do it in the context of the culture in which they have been born and raised, their mother culture. This is the debate which is now being put front and center in the world of mission.