Should Christian's isolate themselves from unbelievers and potential tools for evangelism or rather lovingly infiltrate and employ them for the highest purpose? Should fishers fish uncompromisingly with tools and bait that the fish like—where they gather and are biting.. if you will?
Let's prayerfully use all the effective tools that we can to do things with excellence ..as unto the Lord!
"He (Jesus) said to them, 'The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.'" —Luke 10:2
"World evangelization in this generation!" —The Urgent Cry of the Student Volunteer Movement
The net—it's for fishing; it's not primarily for decorating and making things look nice …at least that's what a true angler would tell you. What do you use the net for? What other social networks do you use?"He (Jesus) said to them, 'The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.'" —Luke 10:2
"World evangelization in this generation!" —The Urgent Cry of the Student Volunteer Movement
Did you know that today is Facebook's 5th birthday and they are leading social networks globally with over 220 million members? Happy Birthday Facebook and congratulations founder, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg! Thank you for this tool! With all due respect, I encourage you as well to also become a Christian and fisher of men with Facebook today ..if you are not yet one. God would really like that bookoos!
Why don't we choose to be more concerned for people and use this tool to get the greatest Message out farther?
Inside Facebook blogger Justin Smith was quoted saying that "Facebook members must be growing by 600,000 or 700,000 users per day." Statistics firms like Nielsen, ComScore, and Compete.com all show us that Facebook's U.S. user count will indeed overtake MySpace in the States this year.
Here are a few more Facebook stats to consider:
• The average FB user has connected with 120 friends on the site
• More than 15 million users update their statuses at least once each day
• More than 3.5 million users become fans of 'Pages" each day
• There's more than 850 million photos uploaded to this site each month
• More than 24 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each month
* More than half of Facebook users are outside of colleges
* The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
* 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
* There are more than 2 million events created in FB each month
* There are more than 19 million active user groups existing on the site
Those people each have needs that God wants to meet. And we Christians should have a sense of urgency and compassion in helping them ..without ever becoming pushy. I'm convinced we need to use every proper technological means available to us for respectfully getting the Message out today! Our time is so limited.
"For with God nothing will be impossible." —Jesus, Luke 1:37
"The church that does not evangelize will fossilize!" —Oswald J. Smith
"Consider the call from the throne above, 'Go ye,' and from round about, 'Come over and help us,' and even the call from the damned souls below, 'Send Lazarus to my brothers, that they come not to this place.' Impelled, then, by these voices, I dare not stay home." —Jim Elliot
"Whatever we do, it is because Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for everyone, we also believe that we have all died to the old life we used to live." —Paul, 2 Corinthians 5:14, nlt"The church that does not evangelize will fossilize!" —Oswald J. Smith
"Consider the call from the throne above, 'Go ye,' and from round about, 'Come over and help us,' and even the call from the damned souls below, 'Send Lazarus to my brothers, that they come not to this place.' Impelled, then, by these voices, I dare not stay home." —Jim Elliot
I'm certainly far from being an expert, I am merely a learner, a bibliophile, a servant wanting to help more lost people. And I want to do my part so I can spend eternity visiting with and "poking" all my FB and other buds up in heaven.
Billy Graham said, "The evangelistic harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men, women, and nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear full responsibility for the next one. But we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities."
You have your field. I have mine. Let's believe and roll up our sleeves together to do the work! You have a testimony. You know Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the entire world and then came out of that hole in the dirt. So climb out of the hole you are in and start telling people. Go public with Him—out into the harvest fields and tell It.. movin' It from theory to the pavement, then take It to the people with wisdom. Head knowledge alone and circling the wagons isn't enough. Let's apply the truth we've heard, "For we are laborers together with God..." (1 Cor. 3:9).
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