One month until Internet Evangelism Day!
Internet Evangelism Day is one month away. What does your church have planned?
If you're not...
How effective is your church's online ministry?
What does your church's online presence look like? Hopefully your church has a website, at...
Can a virtual church be a "real" church?
Earlier this month, Out of Ur hosted an interesting conversation about the advantages and...
Be a virtual volunteer in September!
Could your internet knowledge make a difference in your local community? The Mozilla Foundation,...
Has Social Networking Had a Positive Impact on Your Faith?
The day one of my parents' peers requested to be my friend on facebook I knew that social...
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Avoiding idiom, writing simply: keys to effective Christian writing and web communication
‘Idiom’ is the use of language in a way that is not literal. The English language is full of idioms. Unfortunately, they are not even universal around the English-speaking world. For people who speak English as a second language, idiom is even harder to understand.
We use idiom all the time without realizing. Here are some really obvious ones...
http://internetevangelismday.com/idiom.php
Biblical basis and justification of the Bridge Strategy in effective evangelism and outreach
Why don’t we just “give people the Gospel"? Why make a starting-point at other topics, including those relating to contemporary culture such as films?
The use of the Bridge Strategy is biblical as well as practical: our example is the apostle Paul. Look at how he communicated with his Greek listeners on Mars Hill: Acts 17:16-34.
http://internetevangelismday.com/biblical-strategy.php
Internet Evangelism books and research studies, many free downloads
The books in this section cover different aspects of internet evangelism, and are mainly free downloads.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/internet-evangelism-books.php?id=menu
Free e-book: Facebook Page Marketing Guide and related guides on Facebook and Twitter
Internet marketing company Hubspot produces a free 30-page PDF e-book explaining how to set up and use Facebook fan pages. Although this is in the context of marketing a company via Facebook, much of the information is very helpful to anyone starting or maintaining a fan page for non-profit, church, ministry or evangelism. Best introduction I’ve seen on the subject.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/facebook-marketing.php
Book review: Understanding Evangelical Media - The Changing Face of Christian Communication, ed. Quentin Schultze, Robert Woods
This is a valuable introduction to a whole range of communication media: radio, tv, movies, print and web, music, theater, gaming, advertising and ethics. Contributors are all experts in their fields, mainly college lecturers (though not one from outside USA, even Canada!). You may know Dr Q’s writing about the Web, including his 1996 Internet for Christians which gave many their introduction to what was then a strange new medium.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/understanding-evangelical-media.php
Book review: Netcasters Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men, by Craig von Buseck
Von Buseck presents a unique overview into the vast and growing potential of the digital media to share the good news of Jesus. There has been no title like this since Andrew Careaga’s books in the early days of the Web. Its well-researched and visionary coverage, interviews and case studies are indispensable to anyone needing to understand the nature of the new media and how to use them effectively.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/netcasters.php
Book review: The Rough Guide to the Internet, by Duncan Clark, Peter Buckley
If you or those in your church or organisation are not web experts, a secular guide to the Web is very useful. This is a good example. Written in plain English, it covers everything from getting online for the first time to newsfeeds, Internet telephony and advanced tips and tricks guaranteed to turn casual surfers into Net gurus.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/rough-guide-to-the-internet.php
Book review: The New Media Frontier, by J Reynolds and R Overton
This valuable handbook features sections from 14 contributors, each expert in their fields, and actually covers more ground than the title implies. Its main purpose is to help us understand the digital media and how they are changing communication for ever. Blogging, podcasting, apologetics, evangelism, and the Christian academic world are all examined critically. There’s a helpful section on the development of distance learning. Journalism and ethics are explored too.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/the-new-media-frontier.php
Book review: Hooked on the Net by Andrew Careaga
Andrew Careaga, a self-admitted Internet junkie, examines Internet addiction from a solid Christian perspective.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/hooked-on-the-net.php
The internet: Everything you ever need to know
Here is a long but very useful analysis by John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University. He is currently working on a book about the internet phenomenon.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2113