💢 I see myself as a Tech Missionary. What is that?

I was asked. What is my Passion? What am I doing?

I understand myself as a Tech Missionary.

By 2021, 3.8 billion people in the world will own a smartphone.

Many of them are still...

Unreached with the Gospel

Yet most of our Christian media strategies are more or less refining second-generation thinking without considering the implications of this tsunami in technology.

We must think differently. Great opportunities are before us. But as Albert Einstein observed: “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”

We have to think differently.

We need to move beyond thinking, “what is” and begin dreaming “what will be.”

When Gutenberg invented the printing press to mass-produce Bibles, only one third of Europe could read. As a technologist, he and his small minority of cohorts changed the world.

Our lesson is to dedicate ourselves to a new level of thinking.

I was talking with a technologist who grasped the significance of the disparity of the shortage of tech missionaries and the wave of opportunity that will most likely be missed... (but used full out by Mormons and Jihadis;

Did you know that one in three ISIS and Al Qaeda members is a technologist. Al Qaeda is best understood as a media driven ideological movement. True to this definition, ISIS sends about 90 tweets per minute to influence their followers!

In Christian missions efforts there is only about one technologist for every 1500 missionaries.

That technologist mused that a main reason we Christians will miss this opportunity is the way we view missionaries and missions (especially in this Covid-virus age).

Paul’s strategy was identifying “world changers” using targeted communications strategies (a third generation media strategy)

That is what a Tech Missionary is about.

If you are on Social Media, you are already a Tech Evangelist (or you are able to be one?)

Why not join our Vision and our Ministry.

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Part of my Media Course: The Importance of Christian Media Strategies and tech missionaries

By 2021, 3.8 billion people in the world will own a smartphone. Yet most of our Christian media strategies are more or less refining second-generation thinking without considering the implications of this tsunami in technology.

We must think differently

Great opportunities are before us. But as Albert Einstein observed: “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.” We have to think differently. We need to move beyond thinking, “what is” and begin dreaming “what will be.” As I have written before, when Gutenberg invented the printing press to mass-produce Bibles, only one third of Europe could read. As a technologist, he and his small minority of cohorts changed the world. Our lesson is to dedicate ourselves to a new level of thinking.

Recently I was talking with a technologist who grasped the significance of the disparity of the shortage of tech missionaries and the wave of opportunity that will most likely be missed (and handed over to Mormons and Jihadis).

She mused that a main reason we will miss this opportunity is the way we view missionaries and mission. Paul’s strategy was identifying “world changers” using targeted communications strategies (a third generation media strategy).

We need a new breed of missionaries who take advantage of innovations that are changing the world.

https://www.statista.com/.../number-of-smartphone-users.../

Part of my Media Course I want to share with you...: Social Groups

 The importance of focussing on Groups rather than individuals

Media has always been social.

Group conversions account for 86% of conversions in book of Acts

To understand groups and conversion better, I recently read through the book of Acts and counted the number of reports of people coming to faith. Nineteen times conversions were noted as groups and only three times conversions were recorded as individuals: Ethiopian eunuch, Paul and then finally Apollos. It could be argued that Apollos in Acts 18 was really a group since his disciples came to faith a few verses later in Acts 19.

I ask myself: "Why is it that groups are not on the radar screen in most Christian media strategies?"

Secular media gets it, Acts records it, but Christian media strategist generally thinks in terms of “ones.”

Charles Kraft wrote in the book “Handbook of religious conversion” that, similar to Fishbein, if a person is serious about coming to faith (true faith) then they will consider the impact on their reference group and will include some of their reference group in the conversion process. In other words, we can tell if a person is truly interested in becoming a believer by measuring their willingness to include their reference group in their decision-making process.

Check this material to focus on Discipleship Groups : https://disciple.tools/

Part of our Media Course that I want to share with you about World View, Honour and Shame

THE IMPORTANCE OF WORLD VIEW IN SHARING THE GOSPEL 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XNoAFtqOw&feature=youtu.be

The Effect of Honour and Shame: 

A short animation explaining honor & shame for Christian ministry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89-QVkq8_8

To Learn more, go to http://www.honorshame.com/

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