Read More about Bible.org Vision, Goals

On this page we want to spend some time to share our heart and our plans to better serve you our users and that can’t be done in 1 or 2 screens.

Hopefully it is brief and interesting enough that you will understand our vision to see Christians become mature and effective in God's economy that they will see the Great Commission completed in one generation.

As we stated our vision and mission is:

1.0 Our bible.org Vision:  

1.1 Goals to support the Vision

• Provide better tools and opportunities for people around the world to know Christ and have a greater impact, for Christ, on their world by:
  1. Get the the NETBible Word out so everyone is aware that a modern translation of the Bible is a freely available and it has over 60,000 footnotes to help people to understand what God is saying in the Bible. 
     1. Develop tools and widgets where churches/other ministry sites can transparently host the NETBible and its advanced search and study tools on their site.
  2. Continue to add ministry partners so we can add even more on-line Bible studies that help Christians mature in their faith and become active and more effective in ministry, giving their time and talents to complete the Great Commission and to serve others.
  3. Work with the millions of users of Bible.org sites and other ministries to develop a open ministry framework where churches/other ministry sites around the world can share content and methodoligies to engage a billion people sharing Christ and involved in finishing the Great Commission in one generation.
• Quantify the items from our core values such as the “Ministry First” set of values.
• Establish a book printing and publishing entity (NET Bible Press), as a for-profit company. This represents the first tent-making activity. These for-profit tent-making activities will be separate from the non profit bible.org foundation and will exist to generate the necessary funds that bible.org needs to continue the development and internet distribution of quality content and services.
• Open up a channel for donations that will become an additional source of monies that will continue to support the development and free distribution of new content and translations of the NET Bible and critical studies into the languages of the world with a million or more speakers.
• Develop a framework where bible.org can recruit and add staff for specific projects using the tentmaker funding mechanism or accepting new staff that is capable of raising their own support team.
• Ensure all activities, staff and volunteers are covered with prayer and prayer teams.
• Operate the bible.org organization as a model for other Christian ministries: willing to partner and share techniques, technologies, doing good for all involved and demonstrate an efficiency and effectiveness based upon Biblical principles without the reliance on today's marketing hype.

1.2 Our core values

• Do All as unto Christ— Being accountable to God and one-another for our actions in ministry
• “Ministry First” — Develop quality content that is available to ALL people groups of the world, independent of national or monetary status
• An attitude of serving one's neighbor—Include opportunities/requirements to go into the mission field (sabbatical) to clone/share skills
• Productive volunteers of today are supported staff of tomorrow
• Maintain both an effective and an efficient ministry, where donor's monies are applied to ministry and indirect overhead costs are supported by tent-making activities of sponsors and friends.
• A personal Prayer Life

Click on the following example scripture references which support our vision, goals and core values:( Matthew 6:19-21 ; Acts 20:32-35 ; 1 Thess 2:9-11;2 Thess 3:8; Leviticus 23:22 ;Romans 14:12; Luke 14:12b; 2 Tim 2:1-2 )

2.0 In 2001 “Ministry First” Christian publishing model passes the test —

Many had thought that one couldn't build a successful Christian ministry on the premise of “Ministry First”. They argue that one has to first build value in the organization as has been done in more traditional Christian publishing ministries. In 2001 bible.org demonstrated that “Ministry First” is practical as it delivered  million Bible studies to 173 Countries. Also in 2001 bible.org attempted an implementation of our vision to take good quality studies and translate them into foreign languages. Our initial approach was to use paid Christian translators overseas, but bible.org had several unfortunate engagements where overseas. Christian missionaries were sent money or computers as payment and never translated anything at all. It proved difficult to predict the quality or intentions of potential paid translators. However, it found that volunteers, unlike their paid counterparts, were very productive and produced far higher quality translations. In retrospect, this makes sense, as those who have pure hearts see the urgent need for native speakers of their language to have quality Biblical studies materials and make it their personal ministry. Since each translation is used by millions of users, few ministry opportunities represent such a huge opportunity to serve the Body of Christ. bible.org encourages you to check out the translation formatting guidelines, volunteer your language skills, tell your bilingual friends, and if you don't know another language - we ask you to encourage the volunteer translators by thanking them.

 

3.0 In 2009 

3.1 We plan to upgrade the site to improve an already great product - the trustworthy Biblestudy resources you have come to rely on @ bible.org. Below are  few changes that we have implemented.

• Offer better support for our mission boards and the missionaries serving across the globe with an enhanced language capability. 
  • Showcasing best of breed articles in key topic areas in order that they may be translated into multiple languages. This will we better serve our volunteer translator and highlight their efforts for the kingdom.
• Superior Bible reference indexing: Articles are now available and indexed by verse and verse range not just Book and chapter
  • Click "List Articles" and then Bible Reference to check it out!
• Enhanced Registered User Profiles
  • "My Library" bookshelf: Registered Users can add an article they are reading to their "My Library" bookshelf and it will remember it when you return to the site. Users can choose to make this library public on their profile.
  • Networking Churches through bible.org: Please provide us information about your church and the URL of your church website. We are working on being able to place your church on a map and help people looking for a church in your area find you
  • Networking ministers through bible.org: We are also asking for you to tell us about your roles/responsibilities in a church. This will help us understand the needs of our registered users and from this and other user communications we will create reading rooms, special offerings which highlight articles and products that might help you in that role.
  • Enhance the ability to interact with others in the bible.org community. We will initially turn on the ability to see how many are on line and who else is on line (We will experiement with how best to ask a question to those on line for help or discussion on a problem. Perhaps a "shout box"  or something.

3.2 Launch a sister site (estimate 3rd QTR) that will allow users to share; their studies, powerpoints, sermons etc. This site will be more along the lines of what is called a web 2.0 "social networking site" where we have a rich topic index and will highlight the best content on the web per that topic. (If you would like to help build this let us know) 

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