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Review :: Gospel Websites & Applications

July 16, 2009 by hayleyneal 5 Comments

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There are some old links on the page to Christians you might like to meet (Fiona, Matt & Sam) – all of which are out of date and seem unattended by the page owners.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)

Jesus, Media, Technology

Internal Churning

July 16, 2009 by hayleyneal 5 Comments

If you have been around me much and had the pleasure of hearing my pet-hates about Christian Community, you would perhaps have heard me complain about our tendency to be so preoccupied with ourselves… something I like to call “internal churning”.

We give the appearance that we are making great leaps forward for the gospel but all we are doing is sitting around whinging about things that shouldn’t take the priority of our thoughts, energy and actions. I confess… I complain too but I really want to set myself and you a challenge that instead of the internal churning lets look out beyond ourselves, look for opportunities to serve others… perhaps even the lost!

This quote  by C. T. Studd seems to sum up my sentiment of internal churning:

“Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell,
I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell”

Where I see internal churning:

  • Compare the vast majority of products and resources in our Christian bookshops… majority of products are ‘pep talk’ material for Christians. How good would it be if more people put increased energy into truly evangelistic and accessible products for the unchurched / unbeliever?
  • Christian Websites are mainly for the Christian too… The amount of quality websites or blogs dedicated to the sharing the gospel is low compared to the tech-savvy, clean and funky sites for Christian leadership, outreach, ideas, church planting etc.  It’s rare for Christian blogs to address the non–Christian who may stumble across their site. (Bloggers take note from DMDC who regularly addresses: Not Christian? Read this.)
  • Our churches’ budgets and their support of mission and evangelism.
  • Complaints about sermons, lack on inter-congregational events, or just the pure lack of social events at church.

Don’t get me wrong… I think we need to encourage each other all the more as the day approaches (Hebrews 10:25) and Christian friendship is vital for survival but sometimes encouragement comes when we serve alongside each other and focus on something else than ourselves.
START today… instead of having just socialising with church friends this week, why not invite some one on the fringe of church along or some mates from work… cross pollinate your social circles. You get to kill two birds with one stone: social activity with church people and bring near some light to the yard of hell.

Not Christian: CHECK THIS OUT!

Church, Evangelism, Jesus, Media, Technology

Form Management

June 5, 2009 by hayleyneal 1 Comment

Do you have an event that needs entry forms?

A dinner people need to sign up and pay for?

Want an easy way for volunteers to sign up to help out with things?

CREATE A FORM @ WUFOO.

What is Wufoo? Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.

Their HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

All the info is stored online for you to access, search and export into .csv or .xls formats. So very convenient if you need to manage volunteers for outreach week or entries into an art exhibition or sign up for fitness morning.

They also have templates you can just copy and adjust for your needs. Use it for your church weekend away rego etc…

Check out some of the forms we used for 125 Year Celebration Week:

Volunteer Form

I HEART Exhibition Entry Form

Fitness Morning Rego

Technology, Tips, Volunteers
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