Podcast
Elevation with Steven Furtick
Steven Furtick highlighted how Eugene Peterson created a modernlanguage translation of the Bible called The Message, noting its accessibility on phones and its purpose of making Scripture easy to understand.
When Eugene Peterson had this idea, he was trying to preach the Bible to his church, realized they weren't really getting it, so he sat down to write a translation of the Bible in a way they could und...
— Episode: 50-50 Faith
Episode: 50-50 Faith
Steven Furtick highlighted how Eugene Peterson created a modernlanguage translation of the Bible called The Message, noting its accessibility on phones and its purpose of making Scripture easy to understand.
When Eugene Peterson had this idea, he was trying to preach the Bible to his church, realized they weren't really getting it, so he sat down to write a translation of the Bible in a way they could understand... that little version on your phone... there will be one version that says MSG.
It's the Message translation and it was written by a man who had the idea to write the Bible in the language common to the people, and he ended up translating the whole Bible that way... maybe God will use this.
If you click on it there will be one version that says MSG, a modernlanguage Bible you can read on your phone.