What We Believe

Effective October 24, 2026

Shema is built by Christians, for the church. We think you deserve to know what the people making your Bible app actually believe, so here it is plainly.

The Scriptures

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, trustworthy and authoritative for faith and life. Shema exists to help you read it, hear it, and remember it — never to sit above it. When anything in this app disagrees with Scripture, Scripture is right.

The core of the faith

We hold to historic Christian orthodoxy as confessed by the church across the centuries and summarized in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds:

• One God, eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, crucified for our sins, raised bodily, ascended, and returning.
• Salvation as a gift of God's grace, received through faith in Christ, not earned by our work.
• The Holy Spirit, who makes believers new and dwells with them.
• The church — the gathered people of God — as the ordinary place where Christians are taught, corrected, and loved.

Where we stay out of the way

Shema is used by believers across many traditions and in many languages. On matters where faithful Christians have long disagreed — church government, baptism, the gifts, the details of the end — we do not take sides, and we do not build the app to push you toward one. Your pastor and your congregation are the right place for those conversations.

Sermons, not substitutes

Shema was built to help you remember what your pastor preached — not to replace them. If this app ever becomes a reason to disconnect from a local church, we have failed at the thing we set out to do. Use it to show up on Sunday better prepared and to carry the message through your week.

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