Inside Crossway's Plan to Give Away One Million Bibles (Anthony Gosling and Randy Jahns)

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, we are excited to share with you a bonus inside look into Crossway's One Million Bible Initiative. Anthony Gosling and Randy Jahns explain the overarching goals of the project, highlight the unique challenge of distributing so many Bibles to such hard-to-reach places, and they share how the One Million Bibles Initiative connects to Crossway's mission as a nonprofit ministry. Crossway’s One Million Bibles initiative is designed to provide Christians in the Global South with their own copy of the Bible. Join us in an effort to raise $600,000 to support the printing and distribution of 150,000 Bibles by December 31, 2023. A gift of $40 will provide 10 believers with the life-giving resource of God’s Word! ❖ If you want to donate, click here. ❖ If you want to subscribe to the One Million Bibles Initiative newsletter, click here. Read the full transcript of this episode.

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0:00.0	Today, we're excited to share a special episode with you, an inside look at Crossways' ongoing work to distribute 1 million Bibles around the world.
0:12.0	In partnership with hundreds of pastors, church leaders, missions organizations, Bible societies, and individual Christians like you, we've spent the last year hard at work on
0:21.8	the One Million Bibles Initiative, an ambitious project aimed at resourcing the global South with
0:27.3	the greatest treasure this world affords. God's word. In this interview, I sit down with Anthony
0:32.3	Gosling and Randy Johns, two Crossway veterans who have been intimately involved with the One Million
0:37.3	Bibles project
0:38.1	since its conception. They explain the overarching goals of the project, highlight the unique
0:43.2	challenge of distributing so many Bibles to such hard-to-reach places, and they share how the
0:48.5	One Million Bibles initiative connects to Crossway's mission as a nonprofit ministry. Let's get started.
1:00.0	Well, Anthony, Randy, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.
1:04.0	Wonderful to be here.
1:05.0	Thank you.
1:06.0	Pleasure. Thank you.
1:07.0	So how would you summarize Crossway's One Million Bibles initiative?
1:10.0	Well, maybe I could take that. It's something we're really excited about.
1:14.6	And I think it goes back to things like the preface of the ESV Bible, which quotes words that are read as a Bible is handed to a new monarch in Britain's coronation service. And I'll just read that.
1:28.3	It says, this book is the most valuable thing this world affords.
1:33.3	Here is wisdom.
1:34.3	Here is the royal law.
1:36.3	These are the lively oracles of God.
1:40.3	And we, obviously, we believe this about the Bible.
1:42.3	It's the most valuable thing. God's word in written form. It's the most valuable thing, God's Word in
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