Evangelism in a Digital AgeDr Bex Lewis, Research Fellow in Social Media and Online Learning, CODEC, Durham University; Director, Digital Fingerprint

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SOCIAL Media

Rev Prof David Wilkinson

God is a communicating God: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was God…”.

God is extravagant in communication – he is not a silent God who has to be tempted into communicating with people.

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http://www.wordnik.com/words/evangelism

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Embedded Practice?

As indicated in my book, Raising Children in a Digital Age, although children aren’t ‘digital natives’ who are ‘fundamentally different from us’, they have grown up in a time when the digital is an embedded part of their everyday life.

Most politicians are clearly not using social media in an embedded way, but as a digital marketing tool, and this is seen as inauthentic. We need to look at the underlying culture and assess whether traits such as collaboration, innovation, transparency, and openness belong solely to the younger generation. Reports such as the Ipsos MORI Who is Generation Next? have indicated what the concerns of the younger generation are, and what they might expect from their politicians.

Young people want to know that they are being listened to, that their voices count, and that they are not being patronised.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/generalelection.2015/news/?itemno=24588

Jesus Daily

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Darren Hill, The Worship Cloud

All these great Bible verses arrive on my feed without any context, background or explanation. As believers we are fine with this, we of course know the context to any text that appears online… don’t we? But what about everyone else?

http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/11/posts-promises-and-perennial-issues-darrenrhill-digidisciple/

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Brennan Manning

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him by their life style. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

Human Beings

at machines,

not “are

machines”

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1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+3%3A15&version=NIV

Carl Medearis

Relax, enjoy your friends. Enjoy their company along with the company of Jesus. Point him out, freely, without fear or intimidation. You’re not responsible to sell him to them. You’re simply saying what you’ve seen. You're not the judge. You’re the witness.

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