Think about these stats for evangelizing the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ…
If Christians had their own country, they would be the third largest.
Someone becomes a Christian every second.
There are more Bible preachers than the entire population of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea, and Australia.
167 million people regularly watch Bible teaching or preaching online.
A recent revival saw 20 million people saved in 24 days.
As you might have guessed, the above stats are not true. Below are the actual stats.
If Facebook were their own country, they would be the third largest.
Someone joins LinkedIn, every second.
There are more people following Justin Bieber on Twitter than than the entire population of Sweden and Israel. If you added Lady Gaga and Brittany Spears’ twitter followers there would be more people than in Greece, Chile, North Korea, and Australia.
Over 167 million people watched the infamous “Rebecca Black Friday” video on Youtube.com. 2 billion videos are viewed on Youtube every day!
20 million people joined the new social network, Google +, in just 24 days.
These stats were convicting and challenging to me as I read them. Social Media is changing the way we interact with others and communicate. It’s removing geographic barriers. Social media had a key role in seeing dictators overthrown in countries like Egypt. So, why can’t we use social media to help reach this world for Christ? The tools to evangelize the world are at our disposal more than ever. We can literally reach this world for Christ…from our computer. I’m not downplaying the role of people physically going out and reaching others. I am, however, challenged to pray for wisdom and ideas on how to use technology to reach this world with the life-changing message of the Gospel.
Consider this, 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010…I wonder how many prayers were prayed in 2010 for world evangelism? Would you pray for wisdom and power to reach this world? I would love to hear your thoughts below. Do you have an idea on how we can use social media and technology to reach the lost? Leave a comment below.
*Social media stats are from Socialnomics