The theme for School of Discipleship 2026 is
“Lost in Translation: Reclaiming Discipleship and the Foundations of Faith”.
From the twelfth century onward, major cultural and intellectual changes in Europe reshaped how people understood the Christian faith. Over time, faith, salvation, and discipleship came to be explained in more structured and, at times, transactional ways—an influence that still shapes how many Christians think today.

“At the same time, the way the Bible has been translated has deeply affected how it is read and understood. The Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures produced from the third century BCE, and later translations such as William Tyndale’s English Bible in the sixteenth century, made the Bible accessible to many more people. However, as Scripture moved from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek into other languages, some important words and ideas were changed, simplified, or lost along the way.'

“This leads to an important question: do our beliefs and practices really reflect what the biblical writers were trying to say? Over this weekend, we’ll step back into the world of the Bible, rediscover key ideas that may have been misunderstood or overlooked, and allow Scripture to speak again with fresh clarity and depth.”
- Rev. Dr. Sunny Chen