Don’t take your iPod to church!

Posted on June 23, 2009 
Filed under Opinion

Bible“Reading the Bible in electronic format makes it easy to chase down cross-references, to read notes related to the content, to find word definitions and so on. But all of this is at the cost of the natural, God-given flow of the text. As we use our iPods in place of our Bibles, we begin to understand Scripture as we do Wikipedia, a text suited more to browsing than deep study.…”

– Food for thought as Tim Challies reflects on how the medium affects how we read the message. Part 1, part 1.5, part 2.