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Internet Evangelism Day Helps Churches Spread the Good News

In New Testament times, the Roman Road system was strategic in God’s plan. It enabled the spread of the Gospel throughout the then-known world. In the same way, the Internet today is a worldwide network which can facilitate effective Gospel communication.

Now fast forward some 2,000 years. They call the Internet the “Information Superhighway.” It has opened up the whole world for the instantaneous exchange of information. For believers and followers of Jesus Christ and His Great Commandment in Matthew 28 to “go into the whole world” and tell others about him, the Internet is a huge opportunity.

So huge that April 27 has been designated Internet Evangelism Day – a worldwide focus day which aimed at empowering churches and other groups to use the Web to spread the Good news of Jesus Christ.

The outreach is sponsored by The Internet Evangelism Coalition (IEC) – an umbrella group of evangelical Christian organizations who share a vision for online outreach – is backing the IE Day and facilitating its promotion. Among members of the coalition are the American Tract Society, the Billy Graham Center, Campus Crusade for Christ and Evangelism Explosion.

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Blogging Christians and Internet Evangelism – Experts Say it is Top Means of Witnessing

Jason Lee Miller an editor and skillful writer for WebProNews said, “In the past two years, blogging, as a profession, has grown from geeky obscurity into a direct challenge to the journalism industry, even with bloggers’ reputation for being unruly, unvetted, grammatically and syntactically insufficient, and above all, a disorganized mess.”

Although Mr. Miller is correct there are those who believe that blogging may eventually go the way of the internet chat room and fade into insignificance. If or until it does it holds the single greatest potential for evangelism thorough the media since the advent of television.

It has been said that if a college professor could knock down the faith of a person in their freshman year, it wasn’t much faith to begin with. What is being thrown against Christianity on the internet today makes the anti-Christian ranting of secular college professors look tame. If you are going to march into that lions den there are some important preparations that should be made first.

Although it may sound a little too rudimentary the same rules applied to one on one witnessing in real time applies to internet sharing. First know your bible. If you are new to the faith then at the very least keep a topical bible and a good exhaustive concordance around to supplement what you don’t know too well. Looking up pertinent passages will only sharpen your bible skills in other areas of the Christian life.

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Forgiveness – Five Ways it Can Help Your Relationships

When I walked into Starbucks to meet my friend Terry, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Okay, so I knew what kind of coffee I was going to order, but I wasn’t sure why Terry wanted to meet me. Since our big argument four months ago, we had hardly exchanged a few words, even though we passed each other in church with a nervous nod every so often. Before even taking the first sip of his latte, Terry stammered kind of awkwardly, John, I-..I need to ask your forgiveness. Over the next half hour we talked, and as we talked the awkwardness vanished. Our relationship was restored. We prayed together. We cried together. And we didn’t even care that our coffee was getting cold.

Forgiveness is no small thing. In fact, the opposite of forgiveness, harbored bitterness, can be extremely damaging. My friendship with Terry was just one relationship that forgiveness saved, but there are countless relationships fathers and sons, employers and bosses, teachers and students, ex-boyfriends and girlfriends, even husbands and wives where forgiveness can help.

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