[Alex Murphy]

Christ the Redeemer Community Fellowship is currently the fastest growing church in the greater Phoenix, AZ area. It is also unashamedly ESV-Kindle-Only (EKO). David Hopper, lead pastor at Christ the Redeemer, told us, "When we began our church, our people were using all kinds of bibles. It was crazy. We couldn't even follow along when someone else was reading. That's when we decided to go ESV-only. We strongly believe the ESV is the actual word of God, free from any error. All other versions have problems because they have been corrupted."

Gene Carmer, pastor of small groups at Christ the Redeemer, told us, "We used the regular ESV for a while, but it was just taking too long for our people to find bible passages. It required them to know where the different books of the bible are located, etc. Additionally, regular book bibles are really bulky and a pain to carry around.

[Nosterrex]

I guess it would be too much to ask of the members to learn the books of the Bible. There used to be time when the church actually taught people.

[SandWMan]

You’ve got to be kidding me.

Sadly, it’s probably all true...

[rom]

LOL @ "ESV-Kindle is what Paul would have wanted us to use"

Cracked me up. Took me a second to figure out it was satire however.

[MediaMole]

Will those who carry their ESV Bibles on Kindle DXs be branded as heretics?

[BuckyKat]

From the TBNN website:

Team Tominthebox News Network® is a satirical online blog written by Tom Slawson, V. Carlos Slawson Jr., Eric Carpenter and Bill Harris. All names of people or places mentioned in stories are fictional, except when a public figure is being satirized

[Notwithstanding]

This parody simply replaces KJV with EKO.

[fishtank]

I knew this had to be parody....

but on a serious note: why the ESV???

WORLD magazine just named it the book of the year?

Why?

Because it’s sold a million copies?

Why?

Why?

Doesn’t the English language world have enough translations?

What about the two or three Christian missions agencies that do Bible translations?

I think their work is FAR FAR more important than just another new English translation.

[Alex Murphy]

ESV Ping!

Are your "verse of the day" devotions available on the Kindle?

[Ottofire]

Thanks Alex. It had me going for a while...

[raynearhood]

Is this a big issue or something, that it's common enough to be satirized? Heh. Related article here.

[dangus]

Now from those who think that the only good thing that the ESV for is to kindle a campfire...