July 16, 2009
There are plenty more sites and applications but these are the best I found. If you are a Christian and a web developer… consider this a prompting to design a website for non-Christians that is engaging, modern, relevant and true. Jesus is worthy of a good website to explain who he is and the life he has on offer to all. If you have the technical know-how, I’d be happy to consider putting a team together to develop the content…
Let’s be like Jesus go hang where the sinners are: in our generation its on on the web!
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Christianity.net.au
Website for those trying to make sense of God by Anglican Media Sydney
This website has helpful information to help you Make Sense of God. This bit of the site is good.
Yet other pages become a mouse click maze on the Does This Make Sense to You page… I found I had to keep clicking on numerous link to get to the answer. I kept clicking Who is Jesus? and just got a list of more questions… then realised that the question was further down the another list of questions and all I needed to do was scroll down. Still not the cleanest navigation.
There are some old links on the page to Christians you might like to meet (Fiona, Matt & Sam) – all of which are out of date and seem unattended by the page owners. This is pretty poor form I think for a website that has such old content on it, epecially when it is specifically targeted for use by non-Christians.
Good reminder to us bloggers that we should keep our sites up to date, redirect traffic from your old sites or make sure it is stated on your old blog that you have moved on and provide the link.
Two Ways to Live
Online Gospel Tract by Matthias Media
Simple and Clean site. Good presentation of the gospel. With six languages to choose from, including children’s presentation. ‘Investigate Thoroughly’ page has a list to books you can purchase and some free pdf’s. The end of the presentation could link again to this page, as once you’ve read all the content you end up on a contact page but no links to other web content. You have to click back through the presentation to see the ‘Investigate Thoroughly’ page again if you want some more online resources. This could do with some tidying for easier navigation.
Steps To Peace
Online Gospel Tract by Billy Graham
Simple and Clean gospel presentation in four steps… bit American cheese (especially graphics) but it is neat enough and up to date. You can even pray with Billy Graham at the end of the presentation.
Graffiti – Bridge to Life
Video Gospel Presentation by Billy Graham
Good quality & funky gospel presentation (targeted at youth)
Would be fun to embed this on your own church or youth group website.
Billy Graham do some other great videos check them out here.
XEE
Online Gospel Tract by Christianity Explosion
In seven easy steps the gospel is presented. Its clean, modern and up to date. However it is teamed with sharing your faith training video, so makes me wonder who the targeted audience for this site is really for. Perhaps it really is just for Christians to use with their friends?
Also, the organisation seems pretty anonymous… if you are not in the know it would be hard to detect who XEE is and where you could find more information about them from the website. You can give them feedback but still seems unclear as to who you are giving your information to.
Steps2Peace with God
iPhone Gospel Presentation Application by Billy Graham
At the start of this iPhone tract you get the choice of the presentation being in English or Spanish.
Graphics are modern and look quite good and seems to use the iPhone technology well – you can be followed up by getting in contact with them by phone call or website contact form, with a link at the end of the presentation.
Wordless Book
Colour Presentation of the Gospel Application by Planetshakers International Ministries Inc.
If you know the wordless book and know how to use it this is just a iPhone version so you have the colours handy. (Green – creation, black – sin, red – Christ’s death, white – forgiveness, yellow – heaven)
Hayley, two excellent posts in a row. I have been thinking about this lately.
I am glad that Piper, Driscoll and Chandler are posting sermon snippets on youtube that function as gospel presentations. They are short, sharp, clear and powerful in telling about who Jesus is.
Perhaps CPX is doing a good job at this also.
Still there seems to be an overwhelming imbalance of intentionally evangelistic material compared to christian growth material being posted online.
Hey Hayley
I came across your blog through Reuben, who I know from Adelaide. I love finding creative types keen to creatively proclaim Jesus!
I reckon the online world calls for gospel tools founded on interactivity and exploration rather than propositions and ‘answers’.
This is not because my head is particularly pomo but because of the hyperlinked, multimedia nature of online environments.
I wonder if something like 2WTL can really be effective online because of its linear, presentation-response nature. A gospel tool might have the coolest graphics and copy but I wonder whether it will truly serve users well unless it breaks the static Web 1.0 mould. (That said, I’m a big fan of the Christianity.net.au presentation — disappointing to hear about the site probs!)
For these reasons, the best gospel site I know is probably http://www.rejesus.co.uk/.
It’s not setting out to boil down the gospel (which still feels kind of unsettling for an evangelical like me!) but to enable users to creatively discover Jesus for themselves.
What do you reckon?
Cheers from Melbourne
toby – agreed. videos are great online means of communicating the gospel.
arthur – nice to meet you! I agree about hyperlinked mindset for when you are online.
rejesus.com.uk is good but I reckon you would have to be pretty motivated to check out what is on the page… not the easiest to really see what they have on offer.
It does do a great job of picking up on some good angles to preach the gospel from.
thanks for the link
Back again!
Another site that I keep hearing about is http://iamsecond.com/ . The video content is fantastic, although I suspect it’s of limited use outside its American context. Worth looking at though!
i am a big fan of i am second… we have used them in church services… they are a bit american but some are still really relevant.