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Mobile phones for evangelism, discipleship and mission
A strategic article advocating the potential of mobile phone in evangelism and ministry, with special reference to the Majority World. Check out PDF article The Little Phone That Could from the latest International Journal of Frontier Missions.
The article also announces the launch of Mobile Advance, a vital website designed to resource people in the use these mobile strategies.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2650
Lausanne, the mission movement, and digital evangelism
IE Day's Open Letter to Mission Agencies connects with Lausanne's growing focus on digital evangelism around the world.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2359
Take the EX out of ex-missionary. How to start a literature ministry back home
Ongoing ministry for missionaries: “It’s like I never left”
“I wish I could go back,” is the response of many missionaries when they get back to their home country. Reasons for not returning can be many: age, health, caring for older family members, children’s education, finance, or a volatile political situation.
Happily, there are many ways that a returned missionary can continue to minister to his or her country of service. Many are involved in some area of prayer and mission advocacy – encouraging prayer involvement and mission commitment within their home churches. Many can maintain mentoring links with national believers, or be involved in translation work. In these days of population mobility, they can often find a sizable population of ‘their’ people in larger towns.
http://internetevangelismday.com/missionary.php
Open letter to mission agency leaders, executives and staff about digital evangelism
To mission executives, field leaders, missiologists, magazine editors and missionaries everywhere:
We know that your ministry's heart is to share the good news of Jesus Christ. May we draw your attention to the potential of new options that can enhance your mission's objectives: the growing array of digital and Internet evangelism opportunities.
http://internetevangelismday.com/mission-leaders.php
Never Forgetting the Cost - #6142
Your life wasn't paid for at a discount price. Jesus deserves better from you than a discount discipleship. You don't have to visit a grave to remember what you owe Him - He's not there anyway. But each new day, in your heart, visit that cross where the Son of God loved you and gave Himself for you. And then, with a heart full of love and gratitude, live that day for Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/never-forgetting-the-cost-6142
Free MP3 Christian music for evangelism challenge and missionary advocacy meetings
These songs are useful for missions or outreach-challenge meeting for Christians – these are not evangelistic songs to speak to not-yet-Christians, they emphasize to Christians the challenge of sharing the gospel. Whatever your personal taste in music, they are probably more likely to communicate to younger generations than certain traditional ‘missionary’ hymns written in the 19th century! They are free to use and distribute if not for profit, eg you can burn them all on to a CD – many modern CD players now handle MP3s.
http://internetevangelismday.com/music.php
Changing Facebook profile names according to your target audience
If your main Facebook page is primarily based around your ministry, and most of your friends are also involved in ministry, then it is not going to be an appropriate environment to build relationships with not-yet-Christians. It is not dishonest to maintain two different Facebook under slightly different names. Here are some suggestions.
http://internetevangelismday.com/facebook-names.php
Christendom is over. Post-Christian evangelism: presentation by Alan Hirsch
Perhaps the biggest challenge to the western church today is the shift in the last 10+ years to a post-Christian context. And people are just not that much into us any more. Alan Hirsch is one of the key leaders helping us to understand this changing context and change our ministry approaches.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1508
Mobile phones and worldwide evangelism and mission
The Joshua Project has expressed progress in world evangelism using a Global Progress Scale. Different colors represent evangelism status.
It would be interesting to create an overlay for this map showing digital penetration in the red (unreached) areas, because many of these have medium to high use of th
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1314
Digital evangelism to the non-western world and unreached people groups
To share with Muslims, we do need to understand how they think. Here are several articles to help us think through these issues:
* The Missing Father – explaining a Trinitarian Concept of God to Muslims
* Understanding shame cultures – completely different to the culture you probably belong to
* Oral Communication Cultures – although Muslims are people of the book, they are also within a broadly oral communication culture (as indeed are many westerners who do not get much information from print media)
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/356