The BB and the Net

We need to always be humble and Christ honoring in all we do.
NOt that we shouldn't anyway but it is an incentive that others may be watching.

 

I have run into things like that before too. Just this morning I was looking up somethig and one of the results on the first page of google was a thread I was in!

 

It is amazing to know that people the world over are seeing our words.

I was looking at web stats for the visitors to my church website and found:

We were avg. about 75 unique visitors each month. Of those 75 I would assume most were members of the church, however there had been visitors from Germany, Australia, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, Peru, Mexico, and the island of Seychelles. Now I had never heard of Seychelles and had to google it to find out it is an island off the east coast of Africa near Madagascar. The other interesting thing about the visitor from Seychelles is that they or someone from there has accessed our site every month since December.

Those facts told me that our small church website is a Missions Field and I need to remember that as I update and maintain the site. If I need to do that for a site that gets 75 visitors a month it is a no brainer that the BB with its thousands of visitors every month is an even larger Mission Field.

Bill

 

A few years ago, when I was slowly realising that christianity might be true, I visited many churches on the web, to see if they belived and acted on it, and also, since I was raised an apostate lutheran church, if they believed the Bible or just tradition.

Well, I understod one day that I should visit a church where the Bible was preached and after a while I gave my life to Jesus and was later baptized. Definitly the web was an help for me.

Still I visit many churches on the web to see how they work, what they believe. I see today for example on www.rugb.org, that many Baptists in America have more priority on the second comming of Christ than we often have in Sweden. I like to notice also that many churches also specifies what the believe on the second coming, for example pre-trib, pre-mill, in our chuch we seldom discuss those things. For me the web is a support when reading the Bible and thinking of things, especially end times.

Maybe there is someone right now in a distant country, that heard about Jesus, who is not ready to visit a church, but do want to learn more about Jesus, and who might also heard that Baptists love there Bible and do note give priority to tradition, but to the Bible.

 

When I first discovered BB posts were appearing in Google and other search engines I was really taken aback. I didn't like the idea. I thought that what we said here stayed here. I didn't want the world to see Christians debating God, His Word. I asked myself why we had to register for the BB if what we say can be read around the world. I'm still not comfortable with it. I echo what Scarlett said, God forbid that we are a stumbling block to those who read our posts, and God forbid that we would say something here that arouses fury in non-Christian groups that would take their rage out on a local church or any of its members. Whoa! Measure what you say folks. Earth is watching!

raying: raying: raying: raying:

 

"Earth is watching !" said DQ . I'd be more concerned with the fact that God is watching !!

 

Ahhh! The true judge of our integrity has put on here on display for the internet world to see.

 

I had the same think happen to me yesterday (which was
26 June 2007).

 

Doesn't that put a black eye on your testimony if you are in a thread with "banned" under your name?

 

Some consider it a badge of honor to have been BANNED.

 

If I google something to do research on a topic I'm discussing on Baptist Board, and I end up finding a post I made on Baptist Board, can I use that as a reference to support my point?

 

:laugh:

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