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May 20, 2005
Fourteen Bibles
Whilst rearranging some of our bookshelves last night I decided to do a count and discovered that we have at least 14 different copies of the Bible in our house! And that's excluding Children's Bibles, audio Bible, PC Bibles, and the 13 different translations I have on my Palm Pilot (and Jenni's Palm also.) Sounds pretty impressive doesn't it?
But what's the use of that when I still spend more time reading the newspaper each day than reading any of those Bibles? Or when people in countries like China and other places still struggle to even get one Bible to read? So there's a bit of a wake up call to appreciate how lucky we are in that, and to spend a lot more time making use of all this, rather than letting it sit idly on the shelf (or on a memory card or CD) all the time.
It'd be interesting to see what the average number of Bibles is in "Christian households" Wonder if anyone's ever done a survey on that?
