Reformers Series #2

John Wycliffe

 

 

Somewhere in time, around 1302, John Wycliffe was born. He is really 200 hundred years before the official reformation, but he planted seeds that gave birth to the reformation several years later.  John Wycliffe did many things, but one thing he did that stands out is to translate the Bible into the language of the people.  He was English, so he translated it from Latin into English.  He died a normal death, but 43 years after his death, his bones were unburied in order to be burned.  Since the church was burning dissenters, I guess they needed to go back and get the one they missed.

After they burned his bones, they sprinkled the ashes in the river.  I read somewhere the ashes flowed from the river to the ocean and throughout the world.  What was so interesting to me about this was the name of Wycliffe goes throughout the world translating Bibles.

Wycliffe Bible translators are a mission organization that sends people all over the world with the mission to reach people by translating the Bible into their native language. 

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

I’m sure John Wycliffe had no idea his plan of Bible translation would ripple throughout the world, but it did. It’s amazing the legacy a person can leave when they truly seek to serve the Lord.

Plumb - ONE DROP (Blood:Water Mission video) from plumb on GodTube.