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An E-Book About Developing Community Online While Spreading God's Word.


  Look Inside This e-Book


 - A Closer Look
 - Five Authors Online
 - Table of Contents
 - Reviews

 Finding Community: A Closer Look
 
 - Five Authors Slide Show
 - Read Part I (PDF file)
 - Synopsis of Part II

Have you ever thought about what a person walking into a strange church must feel like, especially if they're not used to "doing church"?  They walk in and sit down.   Maybe someone says "hi" to them.  Maybe no one does.  Maybe they'll come back.  But maybe, they won't. And, since they get everything else from the Internet - especially if they're under the age of 35 - many decide to go online to connect spiritually.

They're interested in Finding Community, and increasingly, they're doing it on the Internet.

If your goal is to reach out and evangelize these folks, you may find what I have to offer of interest.  Come, take a closer look.


Are you the type of person that likes a detailed description of something?  If so, click on this button to LEARN MORE

 

Are You a "visual person?"  If so,
TURN ON SPEAKERS & CLICK ON THIS BUTTON to see a 4 minute "Quick Time" movie introducing to this idea of creating a virtual community.  Need Quick Time?  Download it here. 

 

Maybe you're one of those people who need a mix of visual AND descriptive information.  In that case, CLICK ON THIS BUTTON  and we'll try to help you
"split the difference."  


When the Iron Age first began, the nation of Israel was at the losing end of the learning curve.  We know that their enemies, the Philistines, had a monopoly on the technology needed to produce Iron.  For example, we read in I Samuel 13:19-20:

Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”  So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshares, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.

In our day and age, the Internet is “The Iron of the Culture.”  As in David’s day, the culture around us has been much more adept at using and applying this new technological tool.  Many in the church are only now just beginning to come to grips with how to use it.  Like iron, the Internet is a technology that can be used for good – and for evil.

It is true that many churches have built websites, but it is also true that many churches sense that they have missed the mark in building their sites. 

Finding Community:  Creating Connections on the Frontier of Online Ministry

Is designed to help you hit that mark.

Take a moment. Explore.  Download The Five Authors you Meet on the Internet.  And, if you feel led to do so, order FINDING COMMUNITY.

   
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