A Soul is Everywhere

Scripture:
"Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. "
(John 4:25)

If you haven't already noticed, social networking on the Internet is at an all time high. Many years ago we did it on bulletin boards (BBS) over ARPANet (goverment term before WWW). Then came Internet services like Compuserve and AOL and now it is MySpace, Twitter and Facebook.

Well about around Thanksgiving my son told me that our whole family was on Facebook. Since a had some extra time over the holiday vacation I began exploring this social network. Many of my nieces and nephews are on and they now fill me in about their lives, boyfriends, activities, etc.

One of the venues of Facebook is a place called YoVille. This is a virtual world where you have your own character called an avatar and you play games and earn "coins" and buy things for your apartment and properties. It is an amazing to see how some people have so many hours to "live" in this place and buy "stuff".

At first I thought all of this was a waste of time but because I was praying that God would help me reconnect with my family back east, I took Facebook as the opportunity to do this. Then, as I explored YoVille, I realized that there were hundreds of thousands of people in that virtual city and there was not a single "church". Now don't shake your head yet.

Over the last couple of months I been witnessing in YoVille. That is right. I have figured out how to leave "message-tracts" between 30 to 50 new people everyday, I get 10 to 20 responses every day, both good and bad, and I have had many legitimate opportunities to witness and share God's Word to people who are really seeking help. In addition, I have been witnessing on the "streets" just like you might see other evangelists do in real life on the beach. And the responses are identical. There are hecklers, there are listeners, there are those who just stay there and listen, there are those who engage me in conversation. It is incredible.

The point to all this is that people are ready to recieve the message of salvation, we just have to find them and if we don't engage with them then opportunities to share the gospel will not become available. Now I am not saying that God does not "send" people to us so we can minister to them. He certainly does. I am only saying that as Christians we have a message that is far superior to any other message in the world. We know a Savior who can help people who are hurting, who can bring peace to the broken hearted, who heal the sick and even raise the dead. And millions do not even know His name.

We can't all go to a foreign country, and the Lord knows there are certainly lots of places that need missionaries, but with the Global Internet that is just at our fingertips, we can reach some of these people that need Christ that are all over the world just by finding the time to reach out to them.

If you are interested in knowing more about how I am witnessing in YoVille, send me and email and I will add you to my "crew" and we can set up a time to virtually "meet".

Prayer:
Dear Lord, Thank you for the Internet. We know there are many bad things "out there" but there also hundreds of millions who connect online everyday who do not know you. Lead people to websites that can help them and use us Lord to leverage our knowledge of the Internet to reach others for Christ. In Jesus Name. Amen