Bless the Lord everybody,
1)Hey guys this issue is geared at the
mission files on the left of the site under the link
INTERNET EVANGELISM. I promise I would share my
testimony with you. One of my first encounter on the
internet in terms of ministry was with a married man I
don't know. We chat (with me having in mind a chance to
bring the gosple in). To my surprise he attended a
church. He was telling me about a serious problem he
had. He was wondering if God has forgiven him on the
note that he had just being unfaithful to his wife with
another woman. He is a musician and has a little girl in
the marriage. He was bewilder about himself, God, going
back to church and telling his wife. Fortunately the
Lord led me to prayerfully chat with him in a few emails
to and fro. He was settled with a few issues and still
much better. He was so please that he kept contacting me
untill I had to terminate contact with. I asked
forgiveness though and hope not to do so again. The
point is people out there are hurting for Christ's
medicine. "How can they hear without a
preacher"(you).
2) Another instant this young girl my
brother met in the teen chat room email him and told him
she is going to kill herself in 8 hours because... He
handed it over to me and I sat writing back with the
leading of the Holy Ghost. We didn't hear anything for a
while. Then she replied and said she tried but... She
said she didn't know anyone cared and thanked us. I also
prayed.
3) Shanna of our church after I had
introduce it to her said she went into a lesbian chat
room and speak to one the girl about the gosple. Only to
find out that the girl didn't know that Jesus Loves her.
Moreover to know that we care.
There are more!
BRETHREN HOW CAN DEM HEAR WITHOUT A
PREACHER(YOU)!Please read below. A choose to reach out
to someone in your spare time. Be and e-vangelist
Embracing the cyberchurch
by Andrew Careaga
(andrew@e-vangelism.com)
In 1998, Christian pollster and
sociologist George Barna predicted the emergence of a
"cyberchurch" in the early years of the new century.
This cyberchurch will not be anything like the
bricks-and-mortar gathering places that pass for
churches in our culture today. Rather, Barna’s
cyberchurch will be an online church — one that is
entirely on the Internet. Its congregation of millions
"will never travel physically to a church, but will
instead roam the Internet in search of meaningful
spiritual experiences." As the Internet becomes more
integrated in our culture, and as traditional church
become less relevant in a globalized, consumerist
culture, Barna concludes that we’ll see "a majority of
Americans ... completely isolated from the traditional
church format." Not only will they be surfing the Net
for spiritual guidance, but many will also meet in cell
groups and home churches, while others will simply have
forsaken church altogether..
Barna’s predictions paint a pretty grim
future for church as we’ve known it in the West. But the
radical changes the Internet and other forces are
imposing on our world also offer a tremendous
opportunity for us in the church to reinvent
ourselves.
Sure, we’re irrelevant and outmoded in
the hearts and minds of many. But we don’t have to be.
We have set before us the opportunity to embrace this
emerging cyberchurch and welcome these online seekers
into the fold. The Internet has much to offer the
church, and it’s time to integrate the positive aspects
of Net technology and Net culture into our
Christ-centered traditions and move toward creating a
growing, thriving, renewed vision of true church within
our congregations.
As a renewed, vital church, we can go
out into the byways of the Internet and invite these
online seekers into fellowship with us, via
church-sponsored chat rooms or electronic forums. We can
equip them with electronic Bible studies to help them
nurture a more vital faith in this virtual realm. We can
connect with seekers from all over the world and refer
them to local bodies of worshippers, to help them
integrate their online faith with flesh-and-blood
Christian fellowship.
We in the traditional church have much
to offer the cyberchurch. The question is: Will
we?
Grace be unto you.
WebServant
Oneil.
THE INTERNET
IS THE CHURCH LAST FRONTIER
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