internet evangelism

Culture is a rapidly changing thing, so the question is.. how do we bring an UNCHANGING Gospel message to a CHANGING culture?

This past week was spent in Auckland, New Zealand at a Campus Crusade for Christ conference for students living in the Oceania region of the world. (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, East Asia, and some others). There were actually students there from 40 countries around the world!

One of the days we had an outreach, and I had the unique opportunity to be a part of an internet outreach which largely involved Facebook, of all things. There are some amazing people doing incredible work on how to use social networking for evangelism... and they've created a program called God Chat.

We sent out a link to a website called www.watchthinkchat.com, where people viewed a 6 minute short film on the Gospel message. Watch Think Chat is a site for people to do just that. WATCH a video THINK about it CHAT with someone about it The story may be one you've heard before, it may even be something you're passionate about. But maybe it's something completely new. Whatever the case, here's a great opportunity to get your mind ticking, your God questions answered and discover the greatest story in history.

Imagine this: 200 people sharing 60 laptops, posting links to this website all over facebook, chatting with facebook friends and people ALL over the world who caught wind of the link.

In the end, just over 10,000 people viewed the video. there were over 150 gospel and spiritually related chat conversations that occurred that afternoon, and there were 3 people who prayed to receive Christ by hearing the Gospel online and praying a prayer of salvation with someone through the internet. There were even people in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other closed nations who viewed the Gospel video. INCREDIBLE.. yes?!

I think so :)

It was amazing to have a changed perspective on this... Christians often try so hard to avoid or run away from popular culture... Understandably so, with so much sin and awful stuff out there.. but rather than running from this culture, Christians should CREATE culture, such as evangelistic short films and up-and-coming ways to present the unchanging message of the Gospel to this world.

Please pray for the future areas of creative ministry that Campus Crusade for Christ is working at developing in the near future. There's a HUGE need for this!