text: Tominthebox News Network - Religious Humor/Satire: Church Offers ESL; Motivation in Question
  Hey! Does anybody know how the Gospel was ever preached before 1611?=0
  Sounds like something my alma mater would help support. :)W.A. Foote - I totally agree! It's like the Lord can only work through the KJV and not reveal Himself through the Holy Spirit to anyone.
  I knew what was coming! Funny!!It's the KJV or nothin' dawgonit!
  Funny stuff. I suppose most of the elect "foreigners" have been divinely placed near Rome, GA! Lucky for them!I use the KJV almost exclusively (I jokingly remind my wife it's the "Authorized Version"), but I don't think it's the only way to go. I just can't understand the newer translations! (Guess 17th century English is my first language.)
  Darrin,I too read the KJV more than any other book... period... before I went to college. Sometime thereafter, whence I became more aware: forthwith writing essays, that my profs, which apparently had bought into the liberalization of English; discoverd my tendencies and anon told me so.
  Ooopss... typo there.I meant to say:"...anon they tell me so."
  Sadly, I've run into people with this exact mindset. Using their logic, Chinese-speaking people could be given Chinese-language Bibles to hold them over until they possess English skills sufficient to read the KJV. Only then would God's Word be truly accessible to them.
  Interestingly enough, there is a massive kernel of truth to this post, as funny as it is.Georgia is a hotbed of Spanish-speaking immigrants. There are places in and around Atlanta where if you pass certain stop lights, the entire neighborhood past that stop light is Spanish-speaking. Curiously enough, Rome does have a burgeoning Hispanic population.Just makes the whole post even funnier to someone who's been there.
  Hahaha, very funny. They are really doing KJVESL education—it would probably suite native English speakers, too!My introduction to Biblical belief many years ago was reading from Genesis through to Joshua in a leather-bound, red-letter KJV. I thought nothing of it at the time, but in hindsight, I see that it could only have been by the power of the Holy Spirit that I was able to persevere through the entire Hexateuch in Jacobean English!
  Funny yet sad too. There really are missionaries and churches which insist on foreign language translations being made from the the KJV!!! And they cause division on the mission field.Oh, and the people in Zimbabwe already know English. They were a British colony. Most people are bilingual (a tribal language and the trade language: English). Maybe the church should send their missionaries to a French speaking country or something. :^)
  Brother Slawson,I understand your comment prefectly.College didn't change my preference - they don't care about language at MIT!
  Wow.I'm Reformed but going to a fundy church... and a good many of my friends actually believe this.They don't call it the KJV, they call it the KJ. The KJV isn't really a version, they say, it is the only true word of God. All other versions are spelled NIP/ESP/NASP - the p stands for perversion.Excellent post, thought my stomach would burst from how hard I was laughing.
  As one of my college profs used to say, "If the KJV was good enough for St. Paul, it's good enough for me."
  In the many years I worked in Japan, until 2007, I saw the young, male, Mormans offering "free" English lessons to those interested. Needless to say, once the Japanese who found the instructors to be kind and well meaning were subjected to the hidden agenda of religion....they were too busy to take more classes. Now, perhaps moving an ESL Shinto or Buddhist to a different religion is a task indeed, less so if the ESL student is already heard of Christ. We all know the celebration of Christmas is big in Japan, much to the observation of interest from an American Christian minister friend of mine. His selling of Easter was less of a success overall, simply no gifts with the "event". In the end it kind of drove the minister off the deep end, he left Japan after ten years, with all the scars of a man banging his head against a wall. I say this as a friend, he was very honest with the situation.Cheers, Stevewww.eslspider.comwww.healthyexpat.com
  Good luck teaching the Zimbabweans English in order to read a KJV Bible! English is not my first language and although I'm totally bilingual, I still find it hard to understand many parts of the KJV. Trying to understand what is being said often obscures the meaning to me so much that I give up!