By Chris Goswami2023-07-18T14:05:00
As the world’s most successful Bible app turns 15, Chris Goswami chats with YouVersion’s CEO to find out how the technology is changing our discipleship
Over the past three months, I’ve dropped into services at nine churches, including Pentecostal, Baptist, CofE, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
Not one offered me a printed Bible.
It’s not that these churches believe the scriptures are unimportant, it’s that everybody already has a Bible, on their phone. And, even if you don’t, many churches display the Bible reading on screen.
We’re so used to our Bible apps it seems surprising that, only 15 years ago, a Bible on your phone was inconceivable!
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