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Effective online witnessing
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Here are a few good ways you can use the Internet to spread the gospel.
Videos
Posting videos on Youtube and other video websites can get a lot of attention and is a great way to spread the gospel. You can
get a camera and film yourself preaching sermons. You can make video edits with clips of preaching and add some music to it.
Or you can just have text videos with music to them. Be creative and come up with ways to get views. Videos are fun to watch,
and audio sermons can be easier for people who do not like to read.
Blogs
Blogs are a good way to witness if you do not have a lot of time to talk to people. A person can simply view your blog and read
sermons or stories you've posted and it could plant a seed of truth in them. There is not much advice to give for blog writers,
except that it is best to keep a blog fairly short, simple, easy to read, but full of truth. Make sure you use plenty scriptures
quotations to back up what your are preaching.
Chat Rooms
There are all kinds of chat rooms online that you can go to and preach the gospel.
If you are going to do a lot of online witnessing using myspace, make sure you get a separate profile so that your main profile is
not marked as spam or abuse, because it will be deleted.
While doing chat room witnessing, it is best to start a conversation that will get peoples' attention. Once you have people's
interest, you will be able to preach the gospel. You can have a post that many people can read, or you can do one on one
preaching.
If it is a group reading chat room, then you can post an interesting subject and lead it into the gospel.
Example: Evolution. That subject alone will raise all kinds of attention from atheists and agnostics. Post whatever prophetic or
scientific evidence you have to back up your claim, but always end it with the gospel.
If you are doing more of a one on one conversation with people, you will need to be ready to ask and answer questions. Start a
conversation that will draw the persons interest, and then preach the gospel.
Example: End of the world in 2012? This will get a lot of attention. If people believe something will happen, then ask them this, "
If you were to die on December. 21st 2012 do you think you would go to heaven. This gives you an opportunity for all kinds of
preaching. Read through all the questions I have on the question page so that you will be prepared.
You are going to get hate mail, but do not let it get to you. Just reply telling them you love them, and then leave them alone. If the
person calms down and asks questions, reply to them, but if is all they want to do is argue and call you names, then go on to the
next person.
You are going to get ridiculous questions from people out of their rebellion. You must try to answer these questions with
patients, because some of them just make you want to scream at their ignorance. However, making the person angry will only
cause them to rebel even more. No matter how ridiculous the question, answer it patiently and biblically.
You are going to start debates with people, but not all of them will be just to mock you; you will sometimes get a person who is
truly searching for answers. They may still be a little defensive and argumentative, but at least they are willing to hear what you
have to say.
You must reply to the person with short, easy to read replies. If you go copy and past an entire teaching about something, they
are most likely not going to read it.
You want to send them one scripture or statement at a time and ask them questions about it. Too many scriptures, statements,
or questions in one reply will not get you anywhere with the person. You want to keep them focused on one thing at a time and
talk to them just like if you were talking to them in person.
Sometimes the person will be so determined to prove you wrong that they will ignore your replies, but rather continue to reply
with their statements. If the person is like this, do not send long replies, just ask simple questions. Their concentration is set on
teaching you rather than learning from you, so they will not pay much attention to a series of questions or statements in one
reply.
This is pretty much all you need to know about how to witness online. Over time you will learn more about how to react to certain
people and how to deal with different attitudes people have. One thing you must always remember is once you've preached the
gospel to them, it is in God's hands.
1 Corinthians 3:7 “So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”