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A wired world - free article for reprinting: share the good news online
“An incredible new technology enables the transmission of text on a worldwide basis. It rapidly reduces production and distribution costs and for the first time allows large numbers of people to access text and pictures in their own homes.”
What is this referring to? You’ve guessed it. The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg.
http://internetevangelismday.com/article1.php
Increase interest and support for your web evangelism outreach ministry
If you are already involved in some area of web evangelism, then Internet Evangelism Day can be used to enhance your own ministry.
http://internetevangelismday.com/piggyback.php
urpose of the annual worldwide Internet Evangelism Daya focus for churches
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. We wish to communicate the outreach potential of the Web to the worldwide church. The site has a twin-track purpose:
* to explain the strategies needed to use the web for evangelism, along with showcase examples, and demonstrate the many ways you could be involved. One surprising fact: you do not need to be technically gifted to do web evangelism!
* to enable you to communicate these truths to others, by providing free downloads: PowerPoint, video clips, drama scripts, handouts, etc. These enable churches and other groups to build a web evangelism focus program into a service or other activities.
http://internetevangelismday.com/description.php
Guide Network: networking and help on mobile device outreach and web evangelism
The Global Use of Internet and Digital Evangelism (Guide) Network is an informal networking resource, linked with Internet Evangelism Day & Web Evangelism Guide, Internet Evangelism Coalition, Global Christian Internet Alliance, Lausanne, and visionSynergy. [www.visionsynergy.net Its purpose:
“Enhancing global spread of the Gospel in multiple languages via the Internet and mobile digital devices, by networking with practitioners to:
* share resources and information
* encourage Kingdom collaboration
* help the body of Christ to embrace and engage in internet/mobile evangelism”
http://internetevangelismday.com/guide-network.php
Digital communication culture
Computers and digital media are changing the world. We need to be like the men of Issachar, “.. who understood the times and knew what Israel should do...” – 1 Chronicles 12:32.
There are now over 2 billion users around the world, and the majority of them are in non-Western nations, especially the hard-to-reach ‘10-40 Window’ region. Many people look to the Internet as their first port of call for help and information on virtually anything.
http://internetevangelismday.com/digital-communication-culture.php
Best books for Christians explaining the Web and digital communication culture
The books in this section explain the nature of the Web and digital communication, and are highly recommended.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/best-internet-books.php
Book review: Understanding Evangelical Media - The Changing Face of Christian Communication, ed. Quentin Schultze, Robert Woods
This is a valuable introduction to a whole range of communication media: radio, tv, movies, print and web, music, theater, gaming, advertising and ethics. Contributors are all experts in their fields, mainly college lecturers (though not one from outside USA, even Canada!). You may know Dr Q’s writing about the Web, including his 1996 Internet for Christians which gave many their introduction to what was then a strange new medium.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/understanding-evangelical-media.php
Book review: Netcasters Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men, by Craig von Buseck
Von Buseck presents a unique overview into the vast and growing potential of the digital media to share the good news of Jesus. There has been no title like this since Andrew Careaga’s books in the early days of the Web. Its well-researched and visionary coverage, interviews and case studies are indispensable to anyone needing to understand the nature of the new media and how to use them effectively.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/netcasters.php
Book review: The New Media Frontier, by J Reynolds and R Overton
This valuable handbook features sections from 14 contributors, each expert in their fields, and actually covers more ground than the title implies. Its main purpose is to help us understand the digital media and how they are changing communication for ever. Blogging, podcasting, apologetics, evangelism, and the Christian academic world are all examined critically. There’s a helpful section on the development of distance learning. Journalism and ethics are explored too.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/the-new-media-frontier.php
Book review: The Millennium Matrix by M Rex Miller
Miller's compelling thesis is that the church has been located in four different communication cultures over the last 2000 years, and that each one has profoundly influenced the entire fabric of the church - the way it is organized, relates together, and communicates to the outside world. For the first 1500 years until the invention of the printing press, society lived in an 'oral communication culture'.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/millennium-matrix.php