According to the Pew Research Center, 90% of Americans own a phone:

• 67% of cell owners find themselves checking their phone for messages, alerts, or calls — even when they don’t notice their phone ringing or vibrating.
• 44% of cell owners have slept with their phone next to their bed because they wanted to make sure they didn’t miss any calls, text messages, or other updates during the night.
• 29% of cell owners describe their cell phone as “something they can’t imagine living without.”

Recent statistics also show that 70% of cell phone owners and 86% of smart phone owners have used their phones in one or more of the following ways in the past 30 days:

• Coordinate a meeting or get-together — 41%
• Solve an unexpected problem that they or someone else had encountered — 35%
• Decide whether to visit a business, such as a restaurant — 30%
• Find information to help settle an argument they were having — 27%
• Look up a score of a sporting event — 23%
• Get up-to-the-minute traffic or public transit information to find the fastest way to get somewhere — 20%
• Get help in an emergency situation — 19%

All this cell phone use equates to the average person checking their phone 150 times per day, thisaccording to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers's annual Internet Trends report.

Application: 

A recent social media buzz point (author unknown) asked this probing question: What if we began to treat our Bibles the way we treat our cell phones?

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