David Smith gives us 5 reasons to use your bound Bible & not your smartphone in church

Now before you hastily write me off as a Luddite or a stick-in-the-mud, understand that I do probably 85+% of my Bible reading online on my notebook. That’s right. However, when I’m in public, I deliberately do 99% of my reading from a bound Bible. (Yes, I’m aware there’s a pic floating around somewhere of me baptizing my own daughter back in the day while reading Scripture from my PDA). So why go bound? Because I think you’ll find the experience liberating! But if you need more reasons, here are five.

1. You’ll eliminate a temptation factor. Though you might be able to resist giving your e-mail a quick check or sending a text to a friend, the willpower of others around you might not be so strong. Why risk luring others into the land of distraction when you’re both to be about worshiping God together and building each other up?

Read the other reasons here