MyBSF: Bible Study Fellowship

Love the app, but Apple Music is blocking the app from streaming properly through Bluetooth in the car. Because Apple has coded music to ALWAYS PLAY in the car, when I tap play on the lecture or notes music also plays. Since Fleetwood Mac was a song played a lot that song plays while the BSF lectures or notes are also streaming. This makes it very difficult to concentrate. Turning off Play next, turning off the infinity symbol and turning off shuffle on all songs in my entire library doesn’t stop the music while also the BSF app is streaming. This doesn’t happen when not in the car streaming over blue tooth. Both of my cars also display the message that nothing is playing when this occurs. I spent two hours on a trouble call with Apple and the tech person says this is a problem. However I also think the app is not telling the phone it’s streaming and to stop other apps from interjecting. It should function also with navigation. When navigation speaks a direction the other app playing music or a lecture should pause they shouldn’t play at the same time. I really think it’s a combination of Apple problem with auto play forced on and this app not sending a signal it’s streaming content. The solution for now has been to delete the music app and subscribe to another service that has a feature to shut off auto play. However being I have an iPhone it would be nice if both BSF and Apple Music didn’t play at the same time when in the car on my commute. Thank you.

I have used the app for about two and a half years. I like working with a printed lesson and have used the app to quickly pull up all the Bible verses instead of flipping around on my personal Bible or a Bible app. It makes it so easy to just tap the bubble and read the lesson notes from the previous week (or listen to them) and access the the verses as you work through the questions. But recently, it has become virtually impossible to take advantage of those features. My leader even stated in class that the Lesson notes, scriptures, and lecture weren’t available on the app. I have not used the app to write answers because the one time I tried, there just wasn’t enough space to complete my answers. And…it didn’t save my answers for printing. That could be because I missed a step needed to save my work, but there wasn’t a prompt to do that. I love BSF and would enjoy a more useable and consistently reliable app. I think it would be important for the developers to actually work with an individual in BSF to insure it is providing what’s necessary to make using the app worthwhile. This week I have spent way too much time trying to make it do what it is supposed to do.

BSF is a wonderful way to learn about our Salvation through Christ Jesus and have fellowship with other believers to discuss the Bible and it’s many wonders and truths. It is structured just enough to guide you through a study, but in depth conversations with others in the groups, allows new viewpoints and experiences to bring us together. Iron Sharpens Iron. We learn from God’s written Word and the different levels of experience we are all at in any given moment or study. Some are only ready for the milk of the Word, the simple message of Salvation. Others are ready to tackle the meat of it, diving deeper into each verse and even the study of a single word within the verse. Beginning your walk with Christ or diving deeper into His Word, BSF has a place for you. Come join us💕