Comments on: How Your Church Can Use MySpace

By: PoetryDaughter

PoetryDaughter — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:55:47 +0000

i have a MySpace account that i created to network with other Christian artists. i found a very beautiful layout and created a playlist of my favorite music, so that anyone who happens to come by will have a chance to be ministered to. Christ was not afraid of sinners who did not know God. IF we are salt and light, we will not become less than that by letting our light shine, and it does not mean that letting our light shine causes us to become dark because of other people’s darkness that they are in. anyone who looks on my page will know what i am about, i tried to make a very welcoming page without being preachy or watered down. and i pray that someone will be encouraged to know the True and Living God because of my presence there.
blessings

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:44:48 +0000

Since you wrote this article, Myspace has changed a bit. In my opinion it is more for media i.e. musicians. Whereas Facebook seems to taking over our social networking lives as it is more secure so you don’t have randoms inviting you as friends.
On the Church front I see that there is a new social networking site called GodsGate, http://www.godsgate.net, they are in competition to Holypal and Xianz.
There is definitely a space for christian networking sites, how they adopt it remains to be seen.
A big opportunity to get the Word out there is in Facebook apps, one just needs to be creative.

By: Micah

Micah — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:37:41 +0000

yes, nehemiah is right. Christianter is a huge mess. the people there are amazingly horrible and extremists. they’yre hopeless fools.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:48:29 +0000

I was on myspace for quite some time, and personally I think it was more or less a distraction from the real world. Not to mention that it brought alot of unwanted drama my way. It may not be the same for everyone, but I felt like Myspace got in the way of my real life…took up way too much time, and got kind of addicting. Ok very addicting. I think it can be a tool for good, especially for musicians, but personally I stay away. I would like the Christian sites if they were easier to use and had all the cool stuff my space had. Witnessing is important, but sometimes I just want to mingle with like minded people and get away from the world…But thats just me.

By: Nehemiah

Nehemiah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:57:11 +0000

Don’t even try signing up for Christianster. That site is full of people who are so full of themselves. Don’t even bother arguing with them because they’re nothing but close-minded, controlling freaks. That site should be called Devilster.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:23:14 +0000

That is a very interesting fact, but it is all true.

By: Robert Eilers

Robert Eilers — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:30:09 +0000

I think it’s good to have a presence anywhere you can. But it also depends on what your church is wanting to do. Do they want to world wide or just keep it local? There’s really no reason to try and do a social networking page if the church is concentrating on just local ministry.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:58:44 +0000

Myspace is a gate. It is a point of entry int a city called – our Generation. 40% of myspace users are young adults (18-35). Politivcians are connecting with them, hollywood is connecting with them, pornography is connecting with them. WHERE is the KINGDOM of God.
I believe we need to stop hiding from the world and begin to take an offensive approach to reach our generation. We are IN the world but not OF the world because we were made to CONQUER the world. We are CHILDREN of God and therefore we must establish the kingdom of our heavenly father.
Myspace is perhaps one of the most accessible platforms for evangelism and discipleship. It is such a powerful tool if we are align to the kingdom and our relationship is right with God , believeme, we can reach everyone of those 80,000,000 young adults.
70% of the pastoral care we give at our church is done through myspace… We’ve gotten all our young adults involved (all 500 of them), since we began using myspace we have witnessed consistent growth in our services, and the results, the testimonies we are getting from people are incredible.
A couple of weeks ago a girl on the virge of committing suicide was contacted by our pastor through myspace, (He didn’t know what she was going through) but sent her a word fromg God now that girl is serving as one of our home group leaders.
I just want to encourage you to go forth and conquer our generation on myspace because if we don’t do it somebody else will.
GBU

By: manny

manny — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:28:52 +0000

This is a great alternative to myspace. http://www.24hrchristianspace.com

By: manny

manny — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:27:55 +0000

This is a great alternative to myspace. http://www.24hrchristianspace.com