Steven D chats with Chay Harty from Bible Society

A big part of that, as you mentioned, is kind of sharing faith in the everyday.

So what might be something that you would do to kind of accomplish that?

Well, the main way we have tried to achieve that, certainly recently, is the Everyday Faith Bible, which, as I say, through the vox pops you'll be hearing, is all about equipping the everyday Christian and showing their faith through their everyday lives, whether that's at work, at home, maybe it's through their hobbies, or just in the daily tasks they do, realising that actually God has intended those things to be part of your everyday life and that they can be used for his greater glory.

And the Everyday Faith Bible fits that need in that it has various interactions, about a thousand pieces of additional content, which is the most numbers of additional content we've ever done in a Bible.

And we had to fact check that at least three times before putting that out there as fact.

And really what we want to see through this Bible is people becoming more confident in reading the Bible and therefore able to share their faith more confidently and much more naturally in their everyday context.

Yeah, no, it's something that we like to hear at Pure 24-7 Radio is just being normal.

And a lot about what you say, that every day is just normal.

And the Bible very much applies to the everyday, to the normal.

And so helping people to kind of connect to the Bible, not as this faraway thing that's, you know, high and mighty, but actually something that's for the everyday and bringing it every day is something that we're quite passionate here at Pure 24-7 Radio.

It's just about being normal, really.

And I love that.

And I think there's a lot of synergy just there.

um why is it that we need the bible in the everyday i suppose is the question we sort of ask ourselves what what is the value there

it's a great question and honestly even though i've been a christian for nearly 20 years it's one i still ponder today and actually work in bible site is one i ponder a lot more frequently is you have to look at the current world that we're in it's very unstable and there's a lot of uncertainty However, looking at, particularly in the UK, where we've seen an increase in church attendance and curiosity around the Bible and perhaps spirituality in general, there's definitely a need, perhaps, for people to be more confident around their Bible so that they're able to explain to those who are curious and coming into the church, why does this book that is many, many years old still have a relevant message to me in the 21st century? And the Bible really, as far as I see it, it's one large narrative story that tells this beautiful story of the way it was described to me once as God the Father going to get a bride for his son and having this beautiful marriage.

And I'm a big sob for romance stories.

So that gets to me straight away.

And I just love that image.

And realistically, when you have those sort of ideas with great marriages, about communication, having that dependence on each other and having just that synergy.

And for me, when you're reading the Bible, it's literally like you're reading Jesus.

Because in John 1, it talks about God is the word and the word became flesh.

So Jesus is literally the Bible in front of you.

And if you want to have that deep relationship with Jesus, with God and through the Holy Spirit, reading the Bible is how we get to that and becoming more confident and reading it daily.

That also just influences the way that we live and inspires our actions.

So by doing more reading of the Bible, become more confident, we're then able to think more with the Holy Spirit within us.