WEB EVANGELISM BULLETIN . . . learning from each other
W-E-B Issue 164 ~ Oct-Nov 08
Monthly ISSN 471-0323 News this time... NEW COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE - DISINHIBITION
SETTING UP A BLOG
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
STORY-TELLING
PARABLES FOR CHRISTIANS
BIBLE COMMENTARY ON CD
RECESSION STUFF
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC...
CONFERENCES
BOOK REVIEW
THAT ELECTION. AGAIN
TIPS
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
MOBILE PHONES
SOCIAL NETWORKING
USE YOUR TECH KNOWLEDGE TO HELP THE DISADVANTAGED
JAPAN DIGITAL OUTREACH
SECRET MILLIONAIRE
TAILEND
"If you are not content with what you have, you'll never be content with what you want"
NEW COMMUNICATION CHANNEL A range of pages from the Web Evangelism Guide have now been integrated into the IE Day site (with more to come) as the 'Communication Channel'. These relate to a wide range of communication and evangelism issues:
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/communication-channel.php For other highlights about IE Day, in the form of a news release:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc3q5dwk_3fwcwt7dz
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE - DISINHIBITION Psychiatrist John Suler offers some valuable insights into the way people interact and behave differently in cyberspace, compared with face-to-face interaction. These are very insightful in relation to online evangelism and discipleship:
http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html
SETTING UP A BLOG Rohit Bhargava writes, "Starting a blog is not for everyone. There are lots of reasons not to blog - issues include having the time to keep a blog up to date, having something to say, and the fact that blogging is becoming an increasingly crowded space making it far tougher to stand out than it may have been in the past. Why would I start a post about successful blogging with all these cautions against blogging? Mostly to make sure that if you are going to start a blog, you are getting into it without a false expectation that it can solve all your problems or how much work it will be."
http://www.web-evangelism.com/offsitelink?b08oct-blogging
CHRISTMAS IS COMING One or two evangelistic websites will be getting thousands of extra hits in the next few weeks. This is because they have created a page or section about Christmas, offering genuinely useful and well researched bridge pages on topics as history of Christmas, who Santa Claus really was, how different cultures celebrate Christmas, etc, which then gently leading into the real significance of Christmas, told in a seeker and skeptic-friendly manner.
STORY-TELLING SHADOW SILHOUETTES - a good way to tell a story. If you have a drama/dance group, this has potential:
http://www.web-evangelism.com/offsitelink?b08oct-shadow PUPPETS - download a manual for puppet ministry:
http://www.dci.org.uk/zipped/puppettraining.pdf
PARABLES WORK FOR CHRISTIANS TOO The beauty of a parable is that it embeds truth within the story. Unless you forget the story, truth has been smuggled into your mind. There are several parables that illustrate to Christians some issues relating to mission and evangelism: Orchard parable - The Society for the Picking of Apples:
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/apples.htm Emlyn and the Far Pools - fishing parable:
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/fishing.php A Tale of Two Clubs - golfing parable:
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/golf-parable.php More on strategic value of parables:
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/parables.php
BIBLE COMMENTARY ON CD Bob Utley has incorporated a life-time's bible college ministry into his online Bible Commentary. For people in the non-Western world with limited or expensive web access, he is willing to ship the entire contents of the commentary on CD:
http://www.freebiblecommentary.org For other free teaching and downloadable resources, particularly for the non-western world, see
http://www.soon.org.uk/studyephesians By the way, if you are an expert (ie. qualified to lecture) in NT Greek or church history, please write. I'd like an expert to check brief facts with occasionally.
RECESSION STUFF In the past few weeks, I've had several emails refering to donations to ministries drying up. Two were one-person web ministries, the other a large and effective outreach team. The key to support is 'think partnership and relationships', not 'fund-raising'. Learn more at:
http://www.peopleraising.com/ For a secular non-profit support organization, see:
http://nten.org/join
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