CLOSE THE BIBLE GAP

Solving Bible Access for God's Advancing Church

The Bible Gap

This Gap is the unfortunate reality for existing believers in hard places and those they are laboring to reach.

Unprecedented
Bible Availability

BIBLE GAP

Unprecedented
Church Growth

What makes Bible Access so difficult?

GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS

ON GOSPEL MISSION

ACCESS LIMITATIONS

DUE TO GEOGRAPHY OR WAR

POVERTY

AND A LACK OF GLOBAL SUPPORT

Our God Is On The Move

HOW WE GOT HERE

God’s Church is Advancing Like Never Before

Last year alone, 6.9 million new churches were planted — Jesus followers in previously unimaginable places. With the potential for 10 million new church plants in 2025, that’s 10X Gospel growth this decade.

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God’s Word is Available Like Never Before

Thanks to movements like illumiNations, God’s Word is being translated for over 96.5% of the global population. It’s becoming available to almost everyone.

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The Global Bible Gap is Becoming Clear

Mapping the Bible Gap

It’s time to accelerate the final effort of the Great Commission.

THE BIG PICTURE

The church in remote, restricted, and under-resourced places is advancing powerfully. Yet the people being served by these churches lack basic access to the Bible.

A new collective impact alliance of leading Bible ministries and kingdom investors is covenanting to solve this big problem and deliver God’s Word to the 1 billion people living in this growing
Bible Gap.

LET'S REIMAGINE BIBLE ACCESS

Church leaders in rural, under-resourced, and remote places shouldn’t have to become professional Bible acquisition agents.

As the global church expands, its time to reimagine Bible access, delivery and integration. Isolated Bible products must become a thing of the past – integrated, collaborative service to the global church is now possible and must become the new normal.

Imagine a small church in Northern Togo gathering their community to watch a LUMO Film, which leads to small audio listening groups where families are given Bibles. Children and Youth are intentionally served with appropriate Bible resources as semi-connected digital resources provide easy pathways to share with neighbors of other faiths.

As a church planting leader recently stated, “This approach just makes sense.”

The Bible of the Future

Free Access | Simple to Share | Comprehensively Connected

Logistics

Deepened partnership will open new opportunities. A Bible ecosystem will power the multi-media Scripture assets needed for deployment.

Logistics

Deepened partnership will open new opportunities. A Bible ecosystem will power the multi-media Scripture assets needed for deployment.

Links

All Scripture formats will link to other Scripture formats — including text, audio, and visual. Bible formats living in isolation will be a thing of the past.

LINKS

All Scripture formats will link to other Scripture formats — including text, audio, and visual. Bible formats living in isolation will be a thing of the past.

Licensing

All Scripture must be easily accessible. Friction-breaking approaches like Creative Commons licensing will knock down hurdles.

LICENSING

All Scripture must be easily accessible. Friction-breaking approaches like Creative Commons licensing will knock down hurdles.

Localization

Empowering the local church will drive all development of solutions as we close the Bible Gap.

LOCALIZATION

Empowering the local church will drive all development of solutions as we close the Bible Gap.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

The harvest is ripe, and the workers are now many, yet the advancing church must be fully equipped with the most precious of tools – the Bible. Together let’s serve them with God’s Word – comprehensively.

It’s a Kingdom opportunity way bigger than any one organization, and both ministries and marketplace leaders are unifying this common cause.

It’s time to close the Bible Gap.

WHAT GLOBAL LEADERS
ARE SAYING

“God is raising up this new Alliance to actually deliver God’s Word to every community in a format they understand.”

“There is a massive gap between a product, and that product being delivered and producing transformation – we need to bridge this gap”

“Too often we are only able to pass out 1 Bible for every 3 churches we plant – their first act as a new church is to rip the Bible into sections. We need to do better."

“A pastor in Indonesia should just be able to search the internet in their mother tongue and get the Bible. Out of every 10 pastors in Russia only 1 speaks English. Why are church planters not getting Bibles when they need them. Anything that can get access to church planters must happen now.”

The Close the Bible Gap Prayer

O God, who closed the gap to Your

world by becoming flesh

 

We ask You to close the gap

between the Bible and those without access.

 

Unify our vision

around Your heart for the Global Church

 

To bring Your Word to all,

to the very ends of the earth.

 

Fill us with love

for those who have not seen and not yet heard

 

To equip every human heart

with engagement by your Word.

 

Build a bridge between Your Scriptures

to every corner of the map

 

As You open Your Words of life

and Close the Bible Gap.

Reach out to learn more and join the “ends of the earth” Gospel movement of our time.

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