The Finish Line Podcast John Hanger, Founder of BiblioNexus, When Silicon Valley Meets Bible Translation (Ep. 141)
John Hanger, founder of BiblioNexus, is a serial entrepreneur and a passionate giver who found himself deeply called into Bible translation. After supporting the movement for several years, John felt the need to get his hands dirty with what he knows best—launching a tech start-up.
BiblioNexus is a nonprofit tech company with the culture of a Silicon Valley start-up that is making waves in the Bible Translation space. BiblioNexus is a company of software experts in partnership with Bible translation experts working to build innovative solutions and try to move the needle in Bible translation.
Major Topics Include:
- John’s story of God’s relentless pursuit
- John’s introduction to the world of Bible translation
- Amplifying your generosity by choosing a focus area and investing relationship
- Using donor advised funds to help kids explore generosity
- An innovative tech approach to Bible translation
- AI’s role in Bible translation
- The goal to have Scripture in all heart languages by 2033
- The need for more Bible translation software apps for mobile phones
- “We felt the weight of the blessings we had received.”
- “We settled on the theme of ‘evangelism’ for our giving plan.”
- “There are 7,000 plus heart languages in the world and less than half of them have a Bible.”
- “I knew the Bible was the most translated book in the history of the world, but I had no idea that there was still Bible poverty.”
- “At the end of the day, the flywheel of discipleship and translation is study the Bible, understand the Bible, and then articulate it. That methodology is called FIA: familiarize, internalize, and articulate.”
- “God’s moving people to release their content into an openly licensed environment knowing that the aquifer is now a mechanism through which that content
- can be used worldwide.”
- “We want to have at least some Scripture available in all 7,000 plus heart languages by 2033.”
- “Only 40% of the world’s population lives near or has access to a power grid, but 96% of the world’s population has access to a mobile phone. So the mobile phone is a key technology being used, but little to none of the Bible translation related software products work on a mobile phone today.”
- BiblioNexus
- National Christian Foundation (see our interview with President Emeritus, David Wills)
- Renew World Outreach (see our interview with founders, the Paluskys)
- IllumiNations Bible Translation Alliance (see our interview with Todd Peterson or John Chesnut)
- ETEN Innovation Lab
- Aquifer.Bible
- Community Review Opportunities
- Bible Well
- SIL International (see our interview with Executive Director, Michel Kenmogne)
- Wycliffe Bible Translators (see our interview with CEO John Chesnut)
- The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
- The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group
Galatians 1:10 | Approval of Man or God?
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Luke 15:4-6 | The Lost Sheep
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
Matthew 6:19-21 | Treasures in Heaven
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 28:19 | The Great Commission
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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