One of the things that I repeatedly say when I talk to people about our ministry is that this generation is a visual generation, a narrative generation and an online generation. If we are serious about reaching this generation with the gospel then we need to be communicating to them in this way.

So here’s a story that explains exactly why we need to use the internet to communicate the gospel. By doing so, we bring the gospel to where it is just a click away from the people who need it.

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This month’s featured blogs share a ministry theme.

• Check out Andrea Buczynski’s brand-new blog, AB Reflections.  Her posts are thoughtful and inspiring.
• My Heart for the City – thoughts on this generation of city-changers and world-shakers.
• Responding to God – students respond to God’s truth in their lives. Here is what a few of them said as students texted in their response to “God is Greater Than…”
• Online Times – a challenge to consider how you spend your time online and also a recommendation for a daily Bible reading blog written by two women.
• Love Me If…? campaign in Hong Kong  this month
• Why Ministry? – 12 Scriptures to help you persevere in ministry

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Our good friends who developed the Soularium conversation-starter tool have produced a couple fo training videos. Check them out …

Getting Started …

… and Going Deeper

We have our own contextualised version of Soularium in Hong Kong called YingSeung (影想).

And friends of ours have developed an iOS vesion of their contextualisation of the tool called HeartMirror. Check them out.

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Find ideas for evangelism and discipleship for your mobile phone. (This list was originally written before tablets became so popular, so many of these ideas would also work on your iPad or Kindle Fire.)

I’m re-posting this with permission from the original author.   I tried to update as much of the information as I could since technology changes rapidly, but please comment if any of these ideas could be better presented.  What ideas have you tried?

With Basic Cellphones:

• Audio
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR), for example:
    • Telemensahe
  • Text messaging
  • sending out SMSs with short devotionals, and asking people to forward them to their friends
  • 4 Spiritual Laws by text message
  • Discipleship Message Subscription, for example:
    • www.2cast.net

• Prayer request distribution using:
  • Text messages
  • Facebook groups
  • Twitter

• Browsing to Christian websites, for example:
  • www.everystudent.com/mobi
  • www.jesus2020.mobi

• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) advertising
  • Advertise ...

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The Christian bloggers haven’t been this worked up since Rob Bell’s Love Wins.

The critiques have been pouring in on the very popular video “Why I hate religion but love Jesus” (you can watch it below).

Mega-blogger Justin Taylor tweeted this good perspective:

• in 6 days 12 million people have watched @JeffuhsonBethke’s “Why I hate religion” video.
• In 10 months 650,000 watched the Love Wins trailer.

Several differences in the two firestorms:

• Love Wins was an internal fight among Christians.
• Why I Hate Religion has reached viral status among the broader world.
• Love Wins was justifiably critiqued. It’s pretty much heresy.
• The Why I hate religion but love Jesus video is not flawless in its wording but it’s a great attempt at evangelism

Tullian Tchividjian responds to the critics with, I think, a very helpful correction that’s well worth the read.

I’ve found that in college ministry our main battle is definitely what Tullian writes: that the gospel is “going to have to be distingui...

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