Evangelizing and Making Disciples of All Nations

The wonderful thing about the internet is that it gives people the ability to communicate like never before, more efficiently than ever before, instantaneously, and in more various ways.  What this means for Christians is a tool for evangelizing, for making disciples, and for fighting the lies.  And it means that we can tell who is serious about their faith and who is not.  Because many will go to church these days, say a few churchy things in the company of Christians, but have no actual intention of obeying Jesus' commands.  Here Jesus has set before us a wide open door, now who is going to use it?

But what can I do to evangelize over the internet?
Well, chances are you have a Facebook (everybody does).  Here are some things you can do on Facebook:
1.  Post Bible verses as your status, or any other kind of pertinent message leading people to Christ
2.  Write notes, just like the one I'm writing now.  There are so many issues to address, if you can't think of one, just open your Bible, find some verses and expound on them.
3.  Post Bible verses or short messages on page walls, friend's walls or any other kind of wall you can think of.  Be reasonable, respectful and make it pertinent.  This is what I call "holy graffiti".... Paint it up!
4.  Post pictures with a message and tag your friends
5.  Post videos and links.  Go searching, there is so much out there.  Get connected to Christian pages and Christian friends, and when you see something good click the 'share' button below.
6.  Send friend requests to people in Muslim areas of the world, or areas largely unreached by the gospel.  There are tens of millions of Muslims and Hindus and other nonbelievers on Facebook from all over the world.  Friend them!
7.  Start your own page.  Promote your page.  Use your page as a hub for Christian debate, prayer and encouragement.  Disseminate relevant news and information.  Use your page in whatever way you think will bring glory and honor to God.

And if you have a video camera and a Youtube account, make use of that too.  Be creative, make videos that are interesting and communicate a message.  Find different ways of reading out Scripture, or possibly acting out Scripture.  Make your own Christian art, make poems and songs.  There are so many possibilities with Youtube.

If you're on Twitter or Blogspot or have a blog somewhere else, use them as well.  Think about starting your own blog if you haven't yet.  Expound on Bible passages.  Write about whatever issues are on your mind.  Expose the false doctrines and cults.  Write apologetic blogs or evangelistic blogs.  There are so many things a Christian can write about and bring glory and honor to God with.  Another good thing, for on Facebook or any other social networking site, is that anytime you find yourself in a debate with a nonbeliever, and suppose you know a little to back up your faith but you're not an expert apologist, there are so many resources you can take advantage of.  You can look up Bible verses and keywords in the Bible at a place like Bible Gateway or Blue Letter Bible.  You can find information and apologetic arguments at places like carm.org or 4Truth.net or faithfacts.org or any of the many other Christian sites.  You can use Google to find what you need to know.  There is nothing wrong with Googling something.  You have tons of resources available right at your fingertips, use them.

So now I've given plenty of ideas, ways of evangelizing and making disciples of all nations, and I'm sure there's plenty of ideas I've never thought of.  I don't want to hear someone say "I just don't know what I should do to fulfill the great commission."  Its all right there, its all very simple and easy.  Anyone that would say that Facebook is not a good tool for evangelism is mentally insane.  Anyone that would acknowledge its usefulness, but won't do anything about it, is the lazy servant written about in Matthew 25.  Of course not everyone is meant to do the same things, and women are not called to preach or teach over men, but even just doing the most simple thing - posting Bible verses as status updates - will turn the world upside-down.  Scripture has that kind of power.

There are no excuses now.  We are going to see who actually believes in Jesus and who is lying through their teeth on Sunday.

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.  -Jesus in Mark 8:38