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Nearly two decades ago, Bobby Gruenewald found himself inching through an airport security line at Chicago’s O’Hare airport when a thought passed through his mind: “What if technology could help people read the Bible more consistently?”

Gruenewald, then a self-described “below-average Bible reader” and tech-savvy pastor at Life.Church, tucked the idea away. But he returned home, built an early website that quickly failed, then tried again, this time adapting the concept for the small, low-resolution screens of early smartphones.

On its first weekend in Apple’s newly launched App Store in July 2008, the YouVersion Bible App was downloaded 83,000 times. Earlier this month, YouVersion crossed 1 billion installs, becoming not only one of the most widely used faith-based digital

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