Jul 15, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 14 segments
Can one in five people worldwide really be reached with God's word in their lifetime, and what does it take to make that happen? JD explores this with…
And we'll get into effectiveness here.
But first, let's talk about the problem areas.
We always talk about with our guests, what's a problem that you are looking to tackle with your career? And what are some of the best ways to tackle it? So here, clearly, people not having a Bible in their heart language is a massive problem.
Trace that back.
How big is the problem? How many people are affected? How severely does it affect them?
We're about 91% with the New Testament, and those numbers are going down over time.
I would actually phrase the challenge a little bit differently to what you said then.
It's that when you look at the sort of the jigsaw puzzle of world mission and you try to put all the pieces together and all the components that are needed for world mission to flourish.
that if people are to know Jesus, if churches are to grow biblically faithful, if those churches are to have resources that they need to train their own church leaders, to plant churches, to stay consistent to the gospel over generations, not simply in one generation, but across generations, then that's what we're concerned about.
And so then our piece of that jigsaw is, is to put the Bible translation work in place.
Although frequently other organisations have said, well, you focus on that bit and we'll focus on the church leader training or all the different components that go there.
It does have developmental impacts, but it really is very much a Great Commission type of concern.
And we'll get into effectiveness here.
But first, let's talk about the problem areas.
We always talk about with our guests, what's a problem that you are looking to tackle with your career? And what are some of the best ways to tackle it? So here, clearly, people not having a Bible in their heart language is a massive problem.
Trace that back.
How big is the problem? How many people are affected? How severely does it affect them?
We're about 91% with the New Testament, and those numbers are going down over time.
I would actually phrase the challenge a little bit differently to what you said then.
It's that when you look at the sort of the jigsaw puzzle of world mission and you try to put all the pieces together and all the components that are needed for world mission to flourish.
that if people are to know Jesus, if churches are to grow biblically faithful, if those churches are to have resources that they need to train their own church leaders, to plant churches, to stay consistent to the gospel over generations, not simply in one generation, but across generations, then that's what we're concerned about.
And so then our piece of that jigsaw is, is to put the Bible translation work in place.
Although frequently other organisations have said, well, you focus on that bit and we'll focus on the church leader training or all the different components that go there.
It does have developmental impacts, but it really is very much a Great Commission type of concern.
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