For 2,000 years, Christian missionaries have traveled to foreign lands to spread the Gospel. Today, there are thousands of missionaries preaching around the world without leaving home. Sometimes even while wearing pajamas.
Global Media Outreach, a branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, held a Webinar, or online seminar, this week to raise awareness and to motivate people to participate in online missions.
With tomorrow being designated Internet Evangelism Day (by the Internet Evangelism Coalition), Michelle Diedrich of GMO said she wants "to change the way we think" about the Internet.
"We are the first generation - ever - to hold in our hands the technology to give every person on earth multiple chances to accept Jesus Christ," Ms. Diedrich, GMO's communications director, said in the Wednesday seminar.
The latest estimates report that 1.8 billion people are on the Internet, and every day, she said, they make "2 million searches for spiritual needs."
"There is a lot of evil on the Internet, things that should not be there. When they seek, what are they going to find?" Ms. Diedrich asked. "If Christians aren't there to help people find Jesus, what will they find? If that scares you a little bit, it probably should."
Many churches are catching the vision that GMO has advocated since its founding in 2004, she said. At first, she said, churches and pastors considered the Internet to be "a piece of technology," but in recent years they've been seeing it as a ministry.
Source: Toledo Blade
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