The church of Jesus should be on the forefront of this transformation process, showing the way and setting new standards of excellence. Those who resist this transformation look to the conventions of the past to determine today's and tomorrow's standards for English, instead of looking to Kingdom principles. In other words, having put their hand to the plow of modern translation, they now look back and become unfit to the task of communicating the gospel to modern minds. As a result, they not only hinder the spread of the gospel, but they deter the church from carrying out her work of reclaiming the world and of reversing the effects of the fall in culture. No current English translation or expression of the gospel can claim to be truly and accurately contemporary without inclusive language.
Inclusive language is simply the new standard for English today.
It is how English is being taught, adapted and adopted across the English speaking world. The future of English is therefore inclusive. Again, it is to our shame if the church is behind in this, since these inclusive changes are so much more suitable to the gospel than are those conventions of fallen patriarchalist cultures. In purely pragmatic terms, publishers like IBS who ignore the tremendous shift now taking place in the English language will simply find their publications increasingly regarded as dated and as belonging to increasingly shrinking markets in the generation to come. The need to translate into inclusive language is therefore the same as the need to translate at all, and especially the need to translate into the vernacular.