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If you know much about me, you know that I have a passion for using technology to reach people for Christ.  I think we are in a point in history where technology is and should be a pivital player in the church.  I’ve blogged before about how Facebook and other platforms create unique opportunities for individuals to share with their “friends” about their relationship with Christ.  1 Peter 3:15 says that we should “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you.”  It has been fun to hear stories about people who have shared Christ with old friends on Facebook.  A few months back, Aaron Linne (www.aaronlinne.com) contacted me as he was writing an article about Facebook and the church for Collide Magazine.  I was honored to be a part of it.

Aaron sums up the impact of Facebook well.

In August 2007, Facebook hosted more than 26 million unique visitors, who generated almost 16 billion pageviews. Social networks have become a famed “third place”: A social environment other than the two most common, home and work in which young adults organize groups to support causes, send messages to their friends, and collect contacts like baseball cards. In the competitive online marketplace of information and connectedness, Facebook is the major player in capturing the attention—and information—of millions of users.

You can read the entire article at Collide Magazine here.