Last year, Rick James took our work with Life@Large (a seven-chapter, gospel storyline) and created an updated version known as Backstory. We haven’t yet pursued creating an “app” for mobile devices. That is coming (we say). However, I was copied on an e-mail to Rick from a staff member in California on this creative usage:
I shared Christ with a grad student today at Cal using Backstory. I had him Google search CruPress and download the PDF into his iPad and view on iPad Reader. Looking at it together, we flicked the pages back and forth, read scripture out loud, and answered the Q’s. The way it’s formatted is beautiful on an iPad: it is 4x its printed size when you click on a pane and it fills the screen and 2x the size when “scrolling.” It’s so easy to read, you must try it if you haven’t yet.
We had a quality conversation over quality Gospel media. The student is a believer, so I used Backstory to get to know better and to draw out his story. I asked him which of the seven themes drew him in the most. He came closer to Christ through the conversation and so did I.
Backstory should get a Grammy for best coffeehouse conversation media for use with an iPad. I wonder if Backstory could be hosted on campus ministry and personal websites so one could click and drag the pages and view it similarly to like we did today but with a cursor. Be encouraged. - D.C.
To try this for yourself, download the Backstory PDF here . Then leave a comment to share your experience.
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