Mission in strange places

Just in case you ever thought that evangelism online was an impossible thing, or that the Internet was a waste of time in terms of bringing Jesus to people who've never heard of him, check this blog post out. It comes from a site called Reflections of a Broken Man, and I was alerted to it via another blog post - and the writer of that post came across it by checking out the blog roll on a friend's blog. Thus the Internet leads us down strange and intriguing pathways.

But the strange and intriguing thing about what happened to the writer of ROABM and the girl he introduced to Jesus, is that the 'conversation' took place in the middle of a World of Warcraft game.....

What twenty-somethings think?

According to a new poll by the J Walter Thompson advertising agency, twentysomethings show a lot of respect for traditional values.

The agency found 94 percent respect parenthood and 84 percent have great esteem for marriage. Just a quarter said they respect Hollywood.

A spokeswoman for the agency Ann Mack was surprised by the findings and said, “It could be because they are more idealistic as a generation," she said, "but it could be because they are so young and not yet jaded.”

However, Mark Johnson, who works with B2G (better2gether), a ministry of the Navigators for twentysomethings, said he believes this generation is reacting to the fact that “at least half of them that we see have come out of some kind of dysfunctional or broken home. They are wanting something more or better than what they have come from.”

While it may depend on which twenty-somethings were interviewed (were they mostly middle-class?) it does remind us that there's a big mission field amongst them, particularly if their homelife has been dysfunctional. And the same applies to NZ.