Ok. You don't bring a Bible to church. I think you should.
I disagree. Yall are lacking. You would rather be seen with an Iphone, or kindle, or whatever, then be seen carrying a Bible. But for inconvenience reasons...of course. My, my. This is where we are at. The Bible is an inconvenience.
The Word of God at their finger tips? Is belonging to a local church any different than belonging to an internet church? Why or why not?
One who doesn't carry a Bible to church is being disprespectful to the Word of God. He would rather read it on an app. Not from a Bible. Looks better.
Lees
Whatever you're smoking, can I have some?
Seriously dude. Where do you get off on making these wild assumptions about why people make the choices they make? I don't really care about "status" associated with having a Bible on my phone. It's not as if having a smartphone is any kind of status symbol these days, especially when my phone is nearly four years old and only cost $200 brand new. There are kids in my church not even into their teens who have better phones than I do. It's not like there's really any status in carrying a physical Bible either. But hey, keep on parroting your wild and baseless assumption that I flash this old device around because I hope people will stop and admire the device.
My phone app does bring the text of the Bible to my fingertips. I can scroll through it, I can search for a particular book quickly and easily without missing one of the really short books because it only takes up a couple of pages and I forgot exactly where it is. I can flick between references as easily as pressing the Back button or a bookmark button instead of having to keep multiple fingers or bookmarks in a physical book. And I can do all of these things without caring in the slightest what anyone else thinks of my choice of reading device.
How exactly is it disrespectful to read from a screen instead of a page? Perhaps reading from a page is disrespectful because you could be reading from a scroll. Or a stone tablet. There you go, in the interests of purity you need to get rid of that newfangled Bible that you probably only carry as a status symbol and get yourself some good stone tablets. Hey, they were good enough for the Ten Commandments so they must be good enough for you.
But, you know, if you feel there's more status in carrying a physical book around then by all means have at it. I just hope it's not a particularly ornate Bible you use - you wouldn't want to be seeking status by having a nicer Bible than the people around you, right? You know, those fancy leather bound things with gilded edges on the pages are nothing more than ways to prove you spent more money on the same words than the next person, right?
You'd really get a kick out of what I use when I lead the service at church. I prepare my introduction and print out the words of the Scripture reading on.... a piece of paper. Yep, one sheet of paper. I print it in a nice big font so I can look at the congregation and read it from the lectern. If I read from my physical Bible I'd be constantly squinting and not looking at the congregation. But you know, blah, convenience and all that. There's obviously a lot of status in the sheet of paper I use.
