The Mosaic version of the Holy Bible has now been released today and is in stock at Amazon.com as well as other outlets. For those on Facebook a Mosaic Bible Facebook Group is available.
The publication of this devotional form of the New Living Translation (2007 update) is important because it shows how the broader evangelical church is seeking a new rootedness in the historic church.
The mainline church is desperately in need of this witness. We are the heirs who have squandered our birthright for a bowl of porridge and the evangelical church that sought to create itself ex nihilo with a Bible and a prayer is now acknowledging its desperate need of a past. Accordingly,it is seeking a lens through which to read that Bible and emerge from the ghetto of western modernity into the holistic faith of God’s people whom He has preserved across the generations and the continents. The Mosaic Bible is witness to that quest and will be an easily utilized pathway for that quest.
The evangelical humility in pursuing this work is a virtue we would do well to emulate in the mainline. In the coffers of our history we have much to bring to the conversation. If we will come to this work, we will find some of our forebears like Francke already there speaking for us. But will we come? Will we dust off the sacred history of God’s working in and through us and reclaim that holy legacy on the terms of the God of Holy Scripture instead of as actors in the name of our feeble contemporary idols?
