The Talk Place

I did a presentation the other day and I was very pleased yet perplexed with one of the responses I got from one of the listeners.

I was explaining to everyone, the importance of stories in communicating the gospel in story.

Stories for those of you that have not thought about it, are the preferred method of communicating information, for many if not all societies.

Not just that but many groups in our world do not consider information to be important or worthwhile knowing, unless

What I did to reach the Muslims at our Church.

Our church in Newport, Victoria -near Williamstown in the western suburbs of Melbourne- is quite literally next door to a mosque. For some time they used to use our hall for various functions, parties, celebrations etc.

These days I always try to have my Global Recording card with me just in case I meet someone who may be interested in the mission. The nature of this mission is in my mind one of the most significant things in getting the message of deliverance to all those who need deliverance and I want to put these tools in the hands of every Christian who could possibly need them.

Not wishing to labour a point too much but I've been watching a Documentary on the development of the English language. It has never occurred to me just how much the Gospel has been tied up with technology down through the centuries.

I know that I've made a point of the place of the Roman empire played in the spreading of the Gospel but I'd never even thought about the roll of the printing press.

This is actually a question that have I been asked at one of my deputation meetings for Global Recordings Network.

Those who have had contact with missions would naturally answer "of course not".

But since that question has been asked it would seem that there are at lest some in the Christian community that think missions is a wast of time. The work has been done and now there is nothing to do but wait for the return of Christ.

Where have all the preachers gone?

And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations. (Matt.24:14)

Is it possible to preach the Gospel to the Whole World?

With all the Technology we have, we still have only reached a fraction of the world.

Christian Radio can only reach where there is a radio and that will only ever be where people value the technology. Not to mention that it can only reach largely where the antenna is pointed.

Christians are Incredible Easily Lead!

The other day my wife received an email from a more mature Christian, passing on another email that he had received, asking Christians to ban a particular movie.

How stupid are we to pass this information on?

What incredibly good advertising for the movie!

Let me explain what I mean:

a) When was the last time that someone told someone not to see something or do something only to have them immediately go ahead and see it? It's like wet paint. Everybody just has to touch it.

Some say that personal evangelism and technology are incompatible and that the only real way to reach a person for Christ is meeting them face to face. Well not so long ago I visited a place that put all that into a different perspective for me.

I've never agreed with the incompatibility idea. After all I probably wouldn't be working for GRN if I did. However I recall a visit to Hadrian's wall that caused me to ponder this issue once more.

What possible connection could evangelism have with Hadrian's wall? Bear with me a moment and I'll try to answer it.

The other day I sat in on one of the most exciting meetings that I have done so in a long time.

Can a meeting ever be exciting? Well this one was. Admittedly only because of what it was about.

As you may know if you have read much of this site, GRN is in the process of developing it's next generation Audio player. It's so new that it hasn't even got a name yet. You could say that it is just another MP3 player. But there is a lot more to this unit.