Digital Christian Outreach Picks Up Steam
By Nathan Black
Christian Post Reporter
Sun, Apr. 29 2007

Evangelical Christians today are either entering secular scenes on the worldwide Web to save the lost or designing their own Christian web world to house the faith community. In both cases, the Internet has become a powerful tool for Christian evangelism.

Internet Evangelism Day on Sunday is recognizing what God is doing on the Web and telling more Christians to get on board in web outreach.

The latest development is the virtual world. With the unchurched population in America nearing 100 million, according to The Barna Group, Christians are bringing church to the Internet for easy access and wider reach. The popular online virtual reality world "Second Life" with over 5 million visitors has a small but growing Christian community. Pastors have set up virtual churches in the digitalized secular world and even an ecumenical group to help spread the Gospel message and serve as Christ-centered churches more effectively. the rest