YouVersion Bible app reaches 500 million downloads worldwide

by Seth Udinski
YouVersion Bible app reaches 500 million downloads worldwide

Seth Udinski, FISM News

 

The Word of God is reaching the nations in great numbers, thanks in part to the Bible software app YouVersion leveraging technology to help believers around the world fulfill the Great Commission.

Last week, the organization announced that it recently reached 500 million downloads on smartphones and tablets throughout the world. The app has provided an unprecedented avenue for people worldwide to read the Bible, as it allows the Word of God to be read and studied in over 1,700 languages and numerous translations. The gospel has reached the ends of the earth thanks to this technology.

Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Life.Church in Edmond, OK, the church where the app was created, released a statement on Wednesday after the milestone was announced:

As of today, the YouVersion Bible app is now on one-half of a billion devices around the world. To celebrate this moment, our verse of the day is Hebrews 4:12, which says, ‘For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.’

This announcement comes only two months after YouVersion committed to providing a translation of the Bible to 95% of the world’s population by 2033. If this trend continues, the app service is well on its way to reaching that goal.

YouVersion founder Bobby Grunewald added additional words of gratitude to Pastor’s Groeschel’s statement, saying,

It’s extremely humbling to have reached 500 million downloads. Just the fact that God could do something so big through us. It’s important that people understand that this is something God did, not us. We can’t take credit for this. God did this through me, and it’s so crazy that God would use me. And there’s a lot more that God will do and can do in future.

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