POD Bibles

A website originally set up to be the first live reading of the entire Bible over the internet now provides downloadable audio versions.

Last year, Auckland, New Zealand's Balmoral Baptist Church enlisted 200-300 people of varied ages to take turns reading the Bible live while concurrently broadcasting over the internet.

In response to participant's desire to maintain the "Biblecast," organizers provided chapters that can be downloaded to iPods and other audio MP3 players from www.podbible.com.

The growing site is now estimated to be providing around 1000 chapters per day to listeners.

One church elder said,

"The Bible was, after all, written to be heard and we believe that we are returning it to what it was. That young guy with the earplugs you saw on the bus on the way to work might not have been listening to the latest rock music, but doing his 'quiet time'."

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