Dale Lature has some poignant things to say here about web evangelism, spiritual formation, the power of story, and modern-day communication tools. I especially liked this from the end of his post:
I can’t help but feel that the potential for aggregating a powerful “suite” of communication tools is reaching an apex in this day of the dawn of the blog. By combining blogs, dynamic data driven Web sites, web forums, digital photography and rapid maturation of multimedia that is accessible to increasing numbers of folks, the story telling power of the Web has siginificantly matured.
I think Dale and I are kindred spirits - effective outreach flows out of community and the stories of community’s participants. The web is at its best (in terms of being an effective tool for evangelism) when it is telling the stories of real believers and of the communities in which they participate.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
