Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Consumerism, America, and the Bible

Todd Fields over at Monday Morning Insight (an enjoyable blog stop for me) has an interesting post concerning American Christians excessive Bible ownership (on average nine per American Christian) in comparison to the overwhelming cry in other countries from those pastors and churches who have no bibles.

A good read to get a little perspective this morning.

2 comments:

Phil Strahm said...

I own 4...
NIV
TNIV (gift from IWU)
NLT (gift from SOAR)
One Year Bible (Gift from IWU)

And I use them for research..but I'm starting to use biblegateway.com more and more...so I don't think I'll be buying another Bible anytime soon...of course, IWU will probably give me another! haha

Adam Cramer said...

Way to justify yourself, Phil! haha

In my most recent count, I own 20 Bibles...

NIV (small)
NIV (medium)
NIV (Thompson-Chain Reference)
NIV (Spanish/English)
NIV (Faith-Action Study Bible)
NIV (Student Edition)
NIV (Discovery Bible)
NIV (Men's Devotional Bible)
NIV (Life Application Study Bible)
TNIV
NLT
The Message//Remix (not necessarily a Bible, I guess, but it still counts)
Greek New Testament
Chinese New Testament
Promise Keepers New Testament
Four Versions New Testament (King James/Revised Standard/Phillips Modern/New English)
Catholic Bible (complete with the Apocrypha!)
3 Gideon Bibles

All shapes and sizes. Black, white, maroon, blue, green, yellow, and orange!

I'm pathetic. I should be ashamed of myself. I have no excuses (except that most of them were gifts :)