“go forth”:new frontier of missions
July 20th, 2008
I attended the GO FORTH National Missions Conference the last few days at Suntec City. I attended all the morning sessions which I found very insightful and informative. They gave me a better perspective of the landscape of modern missions. The challenge of urban missions, globalization and the need for innovation. The topics were well planned, systematic and covered good ground. I was informed as well as inspired.
I attended the workshop presented by Campus Crusade titled “Generation NeXt: Youths, Media and Missions” (click on pics) which challenged me with using Web 2.0 and other media tools to reach out to this generation of media-savvy, post modern generation of hooked up young people. I call them a new people group though I cannot use the adjective “unreached”. There are no borders and they speak all kinds of languages and hail from different cultures and nations. However, and they have one thing in common: they surf and use and cannot live without the internet. This “internet tribe”, whom I would like to call “webbies” can be reached for Jesus, and we Christians can be “missionaries” to them- stay at home missionaries, unpaid, yet passionate and committed missionaries. This is a new frontier in missions.
Who and where are they?
How can we reach them?
Who is going to reach them?
You are invited to the party!
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Web2.0 allows formation of societies aggregating people with similar “perversions” (one man’s meat is another’s poison rationale.)
Pastors similarly need to have ” multiple perversions” to meet will these different tribes - a virtual multiple schizoid personality would be advantageous to reach and speak similarly on thes networks.
Net allows development and deployment of unlimited monikers and personalities
This begs the question, will the REAL person please speak up or will this be only possbile to the 3D world with sequential TIME.
Welcome to the MATRIX web pastor.
Using unlimited identities, like an actor taking on different roles, is not uncommon in the web world. I have not really thought of doing so. Hmmm……would it be consonant with the Christian message, or would it be a “sleight of hand”? I need to nail this one. What do you think?