By Jim on
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
King James Version

What we stand to lose as the church stops using the KJV. We lose some of the intergenerational ties that bind us together; the kind of Scripture-memory by osmosis that happens when everyone quotes a common translation; a cultural touchstone that provides a source of common phrases and a form of distinctly religious communication; some of the implicit trust Christians have in the Bible as they now choose between a hundred competing translations; and even some of the implicit trust non-Christians have in the Bible. There is a cost to abandoning the KJV.

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Fri, 01/26/18

I had my son red the shepherds passage from Luke 2 and a guest (man from India) read the magi story from Matthew 2

I brought out my leather NASB and my son said he wanted to read from the KJV.

Looked and looked and all I could find was a leather KJV NT w Psalms that my wife gave me 40 years ago. I had used it for years for personal work and it was completely falling apart.

On the readings: son did an A job reading but the young Indian, with perfect British English, did an A+ job.

Just this month I ordered and received an Allan KJV 62 Longprimer Sovereign, Purple Meriva Calfskin / wow it’s a beauty. And I am using it for devotions this year!

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Fri, 01/26/18

I’m doing a video interview with Mark Ward about his book soon. It’ll be published on SI shortly afterwards.

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.