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Revive Our Hearts: Handling Pressure in Your Family
What happens when your husband is so busy doing good things that stress begins to show on the family? How do you respond to a child who doesn’t share your faith? Nancy moderates a panel discussion with wives handling these kinds of situations.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=331&topic_name=Relationships
Answering and posing Christian questions online
The Web is primarily a relationship builder. If it connects my computer to yours, then it connects me to you, your thoughts to mine. Everything else is just the nuts and bolts.
Very often, such relationships are fleeting. But worthwhile. John at ChurchCrunch explains how he uses Aardvark to connect with people who are asking spiritual questions.
Charlotte writes how she helps people asking questions on Yahoo Answers.
Rob from New Zealand says, “I am doing my best to reach others through Facebook and YouTube. YouTube is easy as you just reply to comments about clips and get a conversation going.”
There is also a huge need for Christians to become e-mentors for inquirers who write to large web outreach ministries.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/595
How Christians can use social networking sites in relationship building and evangelism
The Web as a medium is so broad that for any person it can be ‘what you want it to be’. For some, it is merely best way of keeping in touch with friends and family by email. For others, it can be any or all of: finding new friends, seeking information and doing research, hearing news, playing online games, networking with others about a hobby or interest, sharing opinions, asking questions, making choices about purchasing, publishing their writing, photographs or videos, and much more. And so the opportunities for online evangelism are equally wide. And note, many of them need no technical skill. And it is, in many ways, an ideal mission field. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest (by population) in the world.
http://internetevangelismday.com/social-networking.php
Christian failure: why Christians fail to communicate the Gospel or evangelize effectively
There are two major reasons why we so often fail to touch many non-Christians with the Gospel. Firstly, we frequently present the good news in language and from a viewpoint which does not actually engage with non-Christians and their real felt needs, or take into account the culture they live in. We can quickly forget how we used to feel and think, like someone who moves to a different country early in life, and forgets their heart language. There is therefore a huge mismatch between the actual needs of non-Christians and the production of Christian literature, webpages and other media.
http://internetevangelismday.com/losing-contact.php
Online community: building a sense of community and relationship into websites
A community is a group of like-minded people. You are probably part of several different communities – the town/village where you live, the place where you work or study, a group of friends with whom you play sport or other hobby activity, and your church fellowship. An understanding of community is essential for digital ministry.
http://internetevangelismday.com/build-community.php
Alpha Course concept: how it can be adapted for online evangelism and discipleship
In one sense, there is nothing new about the Alpha Course system. Yet it has been incredibly successful. Why?
http://internetevangelismday.com/alpha-course.php
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It is said that only 25% of evangelicals succeed in sharing their faith verbally in any one year. It’s obviously a big hurdle for many of us, and Chap Bettis isolates the issues and shows how to:
• pray effectively for evangelistic opportunities
• build genuine relationships with non-Christians
• develop the stories of God's work in our lives
• recognize evangelistic doors that God is opening
• easily transition to spiritual matters
• followup after a conversation
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/evangelism-for-the-tongue-tied.php
Book review: How to Communicate with Those Outside the Christian Community While We Still Can, by Tim Downs
The biblical concept of ‘sowing’ as compared with ‘reaping’ is explained. The book demonstrates how to:
* bring up spiritual subjects with busy and distracted people.
* use secular movies and books to talk about biblical ideas.
* overcome prejudice and stereotypes in our listeners.
* keep open doors of communication with even hostile opponents.
* move everyone we meet a step closer to the Gospel.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/finding-common-ground.php
Fatal Refusal - #6136
God doesn't send anyone to hell. We send ourselves by refusing to get in the Lifeboat He provided at the cost of His life. It's a mistake I beg you not to make. You may have accomplished a lot in your life. You may be religious and respected. You may have done just about everything by yourself, but there's no way you can get your sins forgiven by yourself. No way you can remove what will keep you out of heaven. Only Jesus can do that.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/fatal-refusal-6136
Deadly Detour - #6119
Your mission is clear. To take a person that you care about by the hand and lead them up Skull Hill to the foot of an old rugged cross, point to the Son of God dying for them, and tell them, "This is how much He loves you." Any other direction is the wrong direction - one that leads away from the Jesus that they need. So, take them straight to Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/deadly-detour-6119