Digital Strategy – From Meeting Seekers Online to Making Disciples Offline By a Kingdom worker living among the unreached I denne artikel peger forfatteren på, hvordan mange i dag søger og møder Gud på internettet, også hvor det er sværest for kirke og mission at række evangeliet videre. Forfatteren spørger, om kirken er villig til at være der, hvor mennesker søger? Herefter præsenteres en konkret strategi for at lede mennesker på vejen fra at søge online til at blive disciple af Jesus offline, så de selv kan dele evangeliet med andre. Undervejs omtales en række tilgængelige digitale ressourcer. Hiba grew up without a father as a no-
After several months of researching and
minal Muslim in a 99.9% Muslim coun-
reading about the religion, she decided
try. As a student in university she began
it could not be the truth, but she knew
to feel a need for God in her life and
that God existed. She longed to know
wanted to become a good Muslim. She
His real nature and character. She had
decided that if she was going to learn
no idea where to turn, and so she went
more about her religion she needed to
to Google. She typed in the word “God”
go directly to the source and study Is-
and she found so many gods she had
lamic books designed to help her grow
no idea which link to choose or what
in the way of Islam. She began to un-
path to begin. Out of the pain of ne-
derstand things about Islam that she
ver knowing her earthly father her eyes
had never heard growing up. What she
were drawn to a link that said “God the
found shocked her.
Father” and she clicked on it. The verse
She sought out religious leaders to ask about what she was learning and was told, “You don’t have the right to ask
that she read on the link was Psalm 68:5: “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”
those things. Pray, fast, be good, and
Tears streamed down her face as she
don’t ask any more of these questions.”
met God – the Father who called her His
Those responses did not satisfy Hiba;
child. As a result of that Google search,
they drove her to ask more questions.
Hiba’s journey to Christ began. She read
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