Beyond Translation.Church is a global network of Churches and Church networks, passionate on eradicating scripture poverty and promoting communities of faithful disciples in every language group. Beyond Translation.Church advocates the church taking the primary responsibility for scripture translation, distribution and engagement working in close collaboration with all Bible Translation & Distribution Agencies.
The Church-Centric Bible Translation (CCBT) is a well established paradigm for accelerated bible translation, making it faster, cheaper and better. This is achieved by training and equipping the lingual church leaders for quality assured translation in their language communities.
The unique philosophy of Church-Centric Bible Translation Movement is the firm belief in the centrality of the church in God’s plan for accomplishing his mission in this world.
Salient Features of CCBT
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Church Centric
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Community Owned
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Technology Assisted
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Quality Assured
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Free Translation Movement
THE PROCESS
The generally accepted process in CCBT include the following steps. However the lingual church and their leaders have the full freedom to modify depending upon the local situation.
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Drafting (Crowd sourced or technology assisted)
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Community checking
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Exegetical Checking by trained Quality Checkers
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Consultant checking using mentor consultants
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Acceptance by Church & Community leaders
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Distribution (Print, Digital and Audio)
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Scripture engagement by lingual church communities
HISTORY OF CCBT
Over the last couple of decades, several church networks in the world have attempted to make Bibles or Scripture portions available in their heart languages for establishing their churches and believers. These emerged separately and independently, based on their own felt needs for scripture. Various models emerged as a search for new ways of doing Bible translation, prioritising faster, cheaper and better models. Some of them called this “Paradigm X" Bible translation movement. The ultimate goal of each of these initiatives was to achieve a quality assured Bible in every language in the shortest possible time.
These emerging processes are now generally being known as CCBT, while some may refer to them differently.The net result is that the scripture translation has now become part of the process of establishing churches with strong biblical foundations. The thirst for scripture is growing globally among the churches; they no longer have to wait for a completed Bible and to begin using scripture portions that they need.
The goal of the CCBT movement is clearly beyond translation to establishing communities of faithful disciples.
