Later, having giving my life to the Lord, I did not consider them so strange after all, but that was after I had graduated. Today, I saw this article from Leslie Leyland Fields in Christianity today that caught my attention. She writes:
A couple of Sundays ago, my husband, son and I enacted a mini-drama from a script that has likely played out in every church going family in America. During the sermon, with our heads intently bent over our study Bibles, my husband and I glanced down the pew to see our teenage son leaning over his cell phone. Texting during the sermon? {the husband starting texting his son to tell him to pay attention to the sermon with no response}
By now you've already guessed the ending of this vignette. The response to our accusations, wide eyes and sly protestations of innocence before whipping out the cell phone - with the Bible fully downloaded on it. Ah, the snarky pleasure on his face!
Interestingly enough, Mrs. Fields, as have I, has learned the convenience and pleasure of reading the Word of God on a smart phone. The Executive Director of the Bible Society and I met today with a major Bible publisher in the Western Suburbs. During our dicussions with him he showed us their Scriptures on a smart phone and also an iPad and described in detail their strategy of distributed their Bible digitally as well as in print.
Young people today do not need to carry large Bibles around, and most are not. Not when a lightweight device does the job just as well. This is one reason the Chicago Bible Society is promoting the use of Bible Apps. This is a particularly effective strategy for reaching young people around the world with the Word of God, online. Allan Winters, Chicago Bible Society
