![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We were prepared to chalk it up as a failure since we weren’t seeing momentum. TONY: What barriers did you come against that caused you to question if it was truly a dream from God?ĬRAIG: The season when we really questioned the future of YouVersion was when it only existed as a little-used website. Above all else, we want to give the Bible to as many people as possible and get them engaged in God’s Word.Įach step of the way, we’ve tried to add the right people, create the right systems, continue to innovate, and always make faith-filled decisions that stretched our team beyond what we could accomplish on our own. Instead of trying to hit some random goal that was important to us, we tried to keep the mission pure. TONY: What did you do with it once you had it?ĬRAIG: As our vision started to expand, we simply tried to do the next right thing. We will never insult God with small thinking or safe living.” - Craig Groeschel On our team, we often say, “We are faith-filled, big-thinking, bet-the-farm risk takers. It’s hard to believe, but we are one quarter of the way to reaching that vision. I still remember the first time we wondered out loud if we could ever see the Bible App on one billion devices. Instead of thinking thousands, we started thinking millions. TONY: What was involved in cultivating that dream?ĬRAIG: As God started to bless the early stages of the YouVersion Bible App, we expanded our dream. Shortly after, we heard Apple would be launching something called “apps.” With the momentum of the mobile site, we asked ourselves, “What if the Bible could be one of the first apps in the App Store?” We had a 19-year-old guy on staff create the first version of the YouVersion Bible App, and within three days we saw it downloaded on 83,000 devices. The only problem was-it didn’t work.Īs a last-ditch effort, we offered a mobile version of the site and engagement took off. So, we launched a website specifically designed to create community around the Bible. TONY: Where did the dream to launch YouVersion and get the Bible in hands of millions of people across the world come from?ĬRAIG: As our team thought about how Gutenberg’s invention revolutionized the accessibility and distribution of Scripture hundreds of years ago, we wondered how technology might be able to do something similar for our generation. how his team responded to early defeat and limited budgets.How the dream to make the Bible more accessible came to be.As you probably know, Craig and his team at Life.Church pioneered the YouVersion Bible app that has now put Scripture into the smartphone-clutching hands of millions of people all over the world. This week, I’m excited to share an interview with Craig Groeschel. My first article dove into Why Ministry Dreams Need Cultivation & Collaboration. #The youversion bible seriesLast week, I kicked off a series on the importance of dreaming in ministry. ![]()
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