Yeah, so, you know, I think it's important not to tear down people's faith in the Bible.
So you know, a lot of times I'll talk to guys that are in a country like, say, Germany or
something, where the Bible that they have has some issues, right?
You know, instead of winning somebody to Christ and then five minutes later telling them,
oh, you know, your translation has a couple issues, so, you know, it's like, why bring
that up when it's 99% correct?
So what I would do if I were in a situation is, obviously, eventually you want to work
on getting a better translation in that language, but what I would do is I would just only get
up and preach the stuff that's right.
Because let's say I know about 15 places in the New Testament where it's not translated
quite right, I'm just not going to preach on those 15 passages because there's so much
other stuff to preach, you know, why don't you preach the whole rest of the Bible and
then we'll talk about the part that has an issue.
So focus on the part that is right.
Like for example, you know, if I were going soul winning with the New Testament in a language
where they don't have a perfect Bible, I'll just underline all the verses that are right
about salvation and that's my soul winning plan.
So because I wouldn't want to just confuse people like win somebody to the Lord and then
start telling them about the three errors in their Bible.
It's just like, you know, it's better just to let them worry about that strong meat down
the road.
Just give them a Bible, have them read it and you know.
Yeah, I think that's a good thought.
I mean, to me, if you look at the King James, like coming into English, obviously you have
the Geneva, you have the bishops, you have, and you have the, technically the bishops
of the Geneva has some blemishes or some issues, yet they still looked at it as the word of
God and it's, it's what we have and they had high respect for it.
It's not like the NIV, you know, it's not, yeah, exactly.
It's not like a message or something like that where it's just complete trash virtually
all over.
And so I think that's great advice that he gave about just trying to have as much respect
as you can for it.
Obviously, you'd be honest with people, but you don't have to tell everybody everything.
When I knock on the door, I'm not like, hey, I hate fags and hope we all die.
You want to know how to go to heaven, you know, like you want to start with the basics
first.
Yeah, they're not ready for that yet.
Sure.
Yeah.
And the other thing, let's say, let's say you're in a country where the only Bible they
have is a total NIV, like it is total trash.
Then I wouldn't give that to people because I don't want to give people something that
I don't believe in at all.
But what I would still do though is just find the verses that aren't wrong because even
the NIV, you could find verses in it that say the same thing as the King James.
So I would just find all those and use those to win people to Christ.
And then maybe if there's just a John and Romans or something that's, that's from the
correct text, then I'd give that out, give out the thing that is right, you know, so
just find what's good and use that is what I would say.
But don't just introduce people to the textual issue when they got saved five minutes ago.
It's like, you know, unless it's English, then you might want to introduce them and
say, Hey, get a King James buddy.
Cause that's pretty easy to understand.
And it's at every grocery store.
So.