Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs provide unprecedented opportunities to develop relationships, engage with others, and share ideas. This includes unprecedented opportunities to engage others in spiritual conversations.
Tami Heim and Toni Birdsong have written an excellent book titled @StickyJesus which provides some great insight into how use social media and blogs to share the gospel and impact the world.
Because Internet Evangelism Day is May 15 and because one Internet evangelism day has never been enough for us at Christian Web Trends, we’re making the entire month of May Internet Evangelism Month and will be blogging our way through @StickyJesus chapter by chapter.
To make the experience richer and more insightful for everyone, I’m looking for 15 people who would like to blog through @StickyJesus with me.
We did this with Kem Meyer’s book Less Clutter. Less Noise. earlier this year year and it really enabled the participants to discuss the topics more in depth and learn from one another. So, here are the details:
- Monday, May 2, I’ll kick things off with a blog post introducing the series.
- Then every Wednesday, Friday, and Monday after that a different guest blogger will post about a chapter and lead the discussion.
- I’ve created a sign-up spreadsheet in Google Docs. Post a comment if you’d like to participate. I’ll share the document with you. You enter your info in the spreadsheet for the day/chapter you want to blog & lead the discussion.
- You will have to get your own copy of @StickyJesus, however…
We will give away a copy of @StickyJesus to one person who sign-up by 5 PM Eastern Thursday, April 28.
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Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.
An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.
Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.
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It's really exciting to see how many people are interested in participating in this group blog project! We've got all but 2 chapters spoken for. So, if you said you want to blog about and lead the discussion on one of the chapters, but haven't signed up on the Google Doc spreadsheet, you'll want to do that quickly before the remaining spots are taken.
Of course if you don't want to blog and lead the discussion of a chapter, that's fine. I'm praying there will be dozens if not hundreds of other people who participate by reading along in the book and the blog posts with us and join the discussion in the comments.
i think this a great idea.pls sign me up
Sounds like an open door for new voices to be heard ! Biancia Tate
Absolutely!
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I also am interested…..thanks!
Hi Lois, we've got bloggers signed up for all 15 chapters already, but you can still participate by reading the book, reading the blog posts here, and joining the conversation in the comments.
Alrighty, we've got bloggers signed up for all 15 chapters now. Woohoo! I'll publish the list of bloggers and the schedule publicly in the introductory post on Monday.
Now it's time to choose the winner of the copy of @StickyJesus. And that randomly selected winner is…
Crystal Rowe aka @SoulMunchies
Congrats Crystal! I'll email you in just a sec to get your address and get that out to you ASAP.
Looking forward to kicking off the series on Monday!
Remember if you didn't sign-up to blog one of the chapters you can still participate. Just check back here every Monday, Wednesday, or Friday for the next 6 weeks to read and discuss that day's chapter. Or better yet, subscribe to the Christian Web Trends RSS feed, follow us @OurChurch.Com, or 'Like" us at http://facebook.com/ourchurchdotcom And of course you'll get the most out of the series if you get a copy of @StickyJesus – http://ow.ly/4JW28 – and read along with us.
That is a welcome development. Together we shall share the Gospel
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wow !!!
i like it, maybe you can follow me on : http://tipsbarudipercaya.blogspot.com
thanks and God Blesses ALL
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