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It may be convenient having the full Bible on your smartphone, but if it is not changing your life it's not operating correctly.

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[Darris McNeely] We've done a series of BT Dailies on studying the Bible, and certainly we're always talking about the Bible. We cannot exhaust that subject. Millions of people you know are watching this series on the History Channel, taking people through the Bible, through the major stories of the Bible. I ran across an article the other day that talked about the power of Bible apps. And we've even done a BT Daily on that, how the Bible now can be available on any smartphone. You can have the entire Bible, most versions. It's a wonderful, amazing situation that has developed with technology. And really it's interesting to watch, Steve, the interest that people do have as witnessed by this Bible story on the History Channel that people do have in the Bible today.

[Steve Myers] People are interested in the Bible, and I think they're interested in apps and the ease and all those kinds of things, but it still comes down to the fact that you've got to open up that app and use it. You've got to open your Bible and physically look at this to read it, to really get the truth out of it. And that's something I think that's become evident with the History Channel's program as well.

[Darris McNeely] It has, and if you've been watching that series or if you've been intrigued by having the Bible in the palm of your hands, something you can put into your pocket or in your purse and have it highly portable, consider this, that it's one thing to have that accessibility. And it reminds me that there was a time when it wasn't so accessible and people would actually walk around in the Middle Ages - because the Bible was illegal to have - and they would take pages of the Bible and sew them into their garments lest they be found to have a page of the Bible. Things and times have changed. But one thing hasn't, and that is the need to read the Bible and to understand it and then to live by it. And you can watch a story about it on the television. You can even have it all in your hand, but you've got to be able to read it. There's a Psalm 111:10 that says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all those who do His commandments." Understanding comes by doing what God says to do. It's more than just having it accessible.

[Steve Myers] It's more than just watching a movie. It's more than just having an exterior understanding of things. You've got to get into it and know it, and really then you can understand it and do it.

[Darris McNeely] Do that, and you will then really begin to unlock the true power of the Bible - more powerful than you can have on a small computer in your hand. Let it unlock the power of God in your life and you will really then begin to understand God's plan.

[Steve Myers] That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.