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YouVersion Bible App Has Been Downloaded Over 700 Million Times

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Demonstrating the Bible’s timeless appeal across the millennia, the popular “YouVersion” free Bible app has been downloaded more than 700 million times in the US and worldwide since it was first developed 15 years ago, Religion News Service (RNS) reports.

YouVersion was created by US Christian Bobby Gruenewald, a former entrepreneur who is now a staff pastor at the mega-church Life. Church based in Oklahoma City, RNS reports. The app is owned by Life.Church, which runs YouVersion as a distinct operation and is funded by donors from inside and outside the church.

Designed to encourage engagement with the Scriptures, the YouVersion app offers hundreds of Bible versions in numerous languages. It also provides Bible reading plans and devotionals. All the resources are free.

The YouVersion app has now been developed to include guidance on how to pray as well as how to share prayer requests. “You can ask your friends to pray for those requests, and you can be notified every time someone indicates that they pray for you,” Gruenewald told reporters in a recent interview.

“People are turning to Scripture and using it and looking at it in a way that reminds them of God’s faithfulness or hope,” Gruenewald noted.