This Bible Is Not For You
If you already have your own copy of The Books of The Bible we sure hope you’re enjoying it as much as we are. Perhaps you’ve discovered a new kind of Bible reading experience. Maybe you’re even reading more each time you pick up the Bible, now that there are no artificial numbers in the text encouraging you to stop so soon. We know this is the case for some of you, because you’ve written in to tell us. We think this is all pretty great.
But that’s not really why we produced this Bible.
We’re a Bible society. The whole point, actually, for anything we do is supposed to be that new readers will discover the Scriptures. That’s why we give away a lot of Bibles outright. That’s also why we try our best to keep the cost of our Bibles down. Not so Christians can get a good deal on their own new Bible, but so that Christians can easily afford to give Bibles to other people.
And that’s the idea we had when we first started this project. We wanted a Bible that would be inviting to read, especially for those who haven’t read it before. So, give a Bible to someone who’s never read it. This one may surprise them, since it reads like a real book.
The Bible itself, of course, is a missional book. As we say in the introduction to The Books of The Bible: “. . . reading is a means of entering into the story. The Bible is an invitation to the reader to first view the world in a new way, and then to become an agent of the world’s renewal.”
In keeping with our motto: mo betta Bible outreach leading to mo betta Bible reading leading, ultimately, to mo people finding their places in the story of betta (i.e. new) creation in Messiah Jesus.
-Glenn
But that’s not really why we produced this Bible.
We’re a Bible society. The whole point, actually, for anything we do is supposed to be that new readers will discover the Scriptures. That’s why we give away a lot of Bibles outright. That’s also why we try our best to keep the cost of our Bibles down. Not so Christians can get a good deal on their own new Bible, but so that Christians can easily afford to give Bibles to other people.
And that’s the idea we had when we first started this project. We wanted a Bible that would be inviting to read, especially for those who haven’t read it before. So, give a Bible to someone who’s never read it. This one may surprise them, since it reads like a real book.
The Bible itself, of course, is a missional book. As we say in the introduction to The Books of The Bible: “. . . reading is a means of entering into the story. The Bible is an invitation to the reader to first view the world in a new way, and then to become an agent of the world’s renewal.”
In keeping with our motto: mo betta Bible outreach leading to mo betta Bible reading leading, ultimately, to mo people finding their places in the story of betta (i.e. new) creation in Messiah Jesus.
-Glenn
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