MP3 Bibles for the Troops

There are many different ways to bring the Bible to the world. One way is the written word, but as our own experience shows, MP3s can be an excellent way to spread the gospel. One church in Missouri is sending MP3 bibles to the troops as a way to encourage and minister to them.

A BibleStick is a digital audio player, the size of a stick of chewing gum, that is pre-loaded with a dramatized recording of the entire New Testament.

“It costs $25 to put one BibleStick into the hands of one of our soldiers,” said John Mehrens, minister of the Granby church. “People in our church started using BibleSticks years ago.”

The church learned about audio Bible technology through Faith Comes By Hearing, a ministry which sprang from a volunteer Bible-listening campaign in New Mexico and has its headquarters in Albuquerque.

Outreach looks to give a Bible CD to all of Texas

A group of Baptist churches has an ambitious plan to evangelize the state of Texas. They want to give a multimedia CD-ROM to every household in Texas which offers passages of the Bible in the myriad of languages spoken in the Lone Star state.

It is part of a three-pronged campaign dubbed Texas Hope 2010 to convey what "we really believe; that there's hope in Christ," said Randel Everett, the Baptist group's executive director.

Pop one in a car CD player or load it onto an MP3 device and hear the third chapter of John explain how "God so loved the world" in English or Spanish.

Slip it into a computer and download the entire New Testament in one of more than 400 languages, complete with dramatic pauses, sound effects and background music. Organizers say they are not snubbing the Old Testament; the audio is not yet available in all those languages.

Say what you will. This is an amazing plan to bring the Bible to as many people as possible. Be praying that God uses this effort to bring more people to Himself.