The ESV on Your Mobile Phone from Olive Tree
Elia at Monty’s Memoirs blogs about reading the ESV on a mobile phone:
I have now got the ESV Bible on my phone. I got it from Olive Tree. I struggled to get it installed from my mac to my phone - a problem that was easily remedied by reading the instructions. Who’d have thought it?!
Of course, as Elia found out, reading the Bible on your phone during a Bible study might lead people to think you’re just texting someone:
We were studying the book of Jude (just before Revelation in the Bible!) at Home Group tonight - hence the photo. It was tough going but good and challenging. I had also downloaded the pdf of the study guide to my phone so was flicking between the two. I have a feeling that some of the people there thought I was just messing with my phone rather than listening!
Olive Tree makes the ESV available on several platforms, including BlackBerry, Palm, and several phone flavors. Elia shares a shot of the ESV running on a phone:
Separately, Dean at Heal Your Church Website shares related thoughts about mobile-phone Bibles and technology in church:
Folks, change is coming. ‘4G’ technologies for mobile, smart phones is coming whether you want it or not— and many of your newer and younger congregants are not going to know a world without them.
Either figure out a way to leverage such technology for good, or suffer the evil consequence of obsolescence, irrelevance and empty pews.
One place to start? How about posting your sermons online, hyperlinking Scripture and study references. This way those individuals who are up-to-speed are also all into your message.
