Last week, I led the bible study for our mid-week discipleship group which has been very popular with young adults in our church. There are a lot of new people who are new Christiains—it's great.
I was shocked to see that only myself and one other person had physical bibles. Everyone else (around 30 people) was reading the Bible on their phone!
There are advantages to a digital format, especially the ability to easily switch between different versions. The main disadvantage that I see is that it's more difficult for the reader to understand the context of what they're reading. The text becomes a database that you query and divorced from the chapters before and after. You don't get the sense of a book belonging to a particular section or genre grouping.
Am I a fuddy-duddy? Does it matter if people read from physical bibles or not?
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