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Artist Ian Wojtowicz took NASA’s planet earth at night photo (pictured above) and overlayed it with a map visualizing friendships on Facebook (pictured below).
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Subtracting one from the other reveals places that don’t use Facebook.
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Dark = Facebook
Yellow = No Facebook
Wow.
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Wow, very cool. Its a great time to be alive. We are living in an era where we have the most powerful tools to spread the Gospel.
The largest part of the humanity and the world are the poors. People with no Facebook. If you want to touch the largest part of world, think abouth reaching the poors. Put your facebook aside.
Cheers.
Alex, I agree with you that there is a large chunk of impoverished people the world over, who need to hear the Gospel, and don’t have access to technology. However, many of us in Middle-America are not going to be able to go to some of those areas, so we will help in whatever ways we can, by sponsoring programs and missionaries who will go in our places. Remember that for the majority of us, the mission field is most likely the neighborhoods in which we live, and it isn’t just the poor of this world who don’t know Christ. There are many people who consider themselves to be ‘educated’, but are perhaps so educated to think themselves too smart to even consider the idea of our Holy God. In their (sometimes) materialistic, money, and success-driven worlds, they are in just as much need of the saving grace of Jesus. How do we reach them? How can get through? We must use the tools we have…. facebook, myspace, google+, any social media that we can get our hands on. I am always cognizant of the fact that if we don’t use these tools for good, Satan will certainly use them for evil, and he already is!
Thanks for the answer. Of course I understand your point of view and it’s totally legitimate to think that as “western world citizens” our first mission field is our city, etc.
But though it’s legitimate to think that, I do believe in that at all.
Mission fields “down in the wild wild poor countries” cannot be only for a few “out to lunch” missionnaries with a deep sense for adventures. It just does not make any sense to me. Not in a century where with less then a few hundreds bucks you can fly nearly anywhere in the world in no time. It does not make any sense.
Well, if we still had to use wooden ships to navigate 24 months to go to Africa, I would agree with you. This aint the case anymore at all.
Ive been living in Europe (where i’m from) and Ive been living a few years in Africa. I know the place.
And I know that “western” people need to get out of their materialistic confort zone, called to mission or not called to mission.
The World is changing.
A really good read from Ron Luce : http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-tragedy-on-pleasure-island-31907/
“Tragedy on pleasure island”. A must read for every “Western living” people.
Of course i’m not saying people need to jump in a plane and go somewhere in Africa. No of course, we need wisdom to be efficient. But in all that we do, we need to have our eyes onto the poors , and poor nations. But staying in the confort of our western lives wont be a solution by any means, neither for us, neither for them.
I ve been living over there in Africa. And man. When you see the reality of the place, you understand many things. Americans and Europeeans desepertaly need to get out of their materialistic doom, and start to share with the poor countries (Not over facebook, but eyes into eyes and hands into hands)…
Few hundred bucks to fly? Wah?
Also, the Church isn’t even taking care of the missionaries that are already in the field NOW.
First things first.
There’s some truth in that. However, Italy is a very dark place, spiritually (as well as Europe in general), and they have Facebook.
Typo in my 1st sentence : But though it’s legitimate to think that, I do *NOT* believe in that at all.