Last week my ten year old walked into the room while I was working on a new church website. Skip, our oldest, asked, “Whatcha doin’, Pop”?
“I’m trying to see if I can help bring more folks into heaven,” I responded, “one web site for churches at a time.”
“Do you mean,” asked Skip, “that you are building a whole new church inside your computer?”
“Hardly,” I smiled, before checking on the management system I was creating online.
Suddenly my youngest son, Biff, sauntered into my work area.
“Papa is building a huge church online! It will have 20,000 seats and my dad will preach there all the time,” he exclaimed.
I tried laughing off their ideas, but I realized there was an element of truth in what they shared. Each child saw my Apple Computer as a kind of techie parish. I think they viewed my web pages as type of sermon.
I embraced my kids. Both had helped me to understand the online church web site I was trying to design was something more than just some upstart Internet church. More than a church content managment system designed to bring the unchurched to God and Jesus.
I realized, for the first time in my life, this was my ministry, designed to discover hearts online and souls for God.
Thank you Skip and Biff! Maybe I’ll use their pictures on my next assignment—a portal featuring Facebook and Twitter for churches. Now that’s Web 2.0 for personal evangelism online!