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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

God Used This Question to Change History | From One to a Billion

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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Life Church, Life.church, Craig Groeschel, Lifechurch, Christianity, Sermons, Lifechurch.tv, Messages, Message, Religion & Spirituality, Sermon, Christian

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It all started with one question: "Could technology help me read the Bible more consistently?" One step of faith. One decision to give everything away for free. And now we’re celebrating one billion downloads of the YouVersion Bible App. God is accelerating the spread of His Word—and you're part of this story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't know if you've heard, but we're actually celebrating a milestone today.

0:04.5

If you guys heard anything about that or not.

0:07.6

I'm just going to go ahead and answer the question that I get asked the most.

0:11.3

I literally have been asked this question.

0:13.1

It's not an exaggeration.

0:14.4

I've been asked this question more than a thousand times.

0:17.1

It's the same question every time.

0:18.5

And the answer is no.

0:20.4

When I was standing in the airport security line, I never imagined that God was going to do what he's done.

0:27.6

And that we'd be here today celebrating this milestone.

0:31.6

Never imagine.

0:32.2

I wish I had that kind of faith.

0:34.1

I mean, some of you guys have big faith.

0:36.6

You dream big.

0:37.4

But I did not have that kind of faith.

0:39.7

We're talking about a billion, but it actually just started with one question. And the question was,

0:47.8

could technology help me read the Bible more consistently? That was the question that I was asking

0:54.0

in the O'Hare Airport,

0:55.9

in a long TSA security line, if you haven't heard before. And it was October 27, 2006. And there in the

1:04.9

security line, I was sitting there wondering and asking this question because I felt like I was a below

1:08.8

average Bible reader. And so I had this

1:11.8

idea for a website. It predated apps. It was a website. I came up with the name U version in the airport

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