What Would Jesus Do with Facebook?

I have concluded (maybe “survived” would be a better word) my first week as a participant on Facebook, defined by Wikipedia as “a popular, free-access social networking website.” Founded by a sophomore at Harvard University in 2004, the website currently has more than 150 million active users worldwide. Of course, like most everything else these days, it involves the Internet. As I excitedly re-connected with old friends and connected with new friends, the question arose, WWJD (you remember – “What Would Jesus Do?”). I haven’t exactly come to a conclusive answer to that question as yet. Maybe you could click on “Leave a reply” or “Post a comment” below and share your insight. I do think I know what the Apostle Paul would do, given his desire to, as he said, “become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” (1 Cor. 9:22). I think Paul would quickly join and take advantage of this modern method of sharing life with everyone he could. He’d have one of the largest “friend” lists of all. After all, it was he who proclaimed, we are “members of one another” (Rom 12:5). Having solved (at least in my mind) Paul’s response to Facebook, I’m still wondering WWJD? Share your comments with me. And by the way, if you’d like to join my Facebook, go ahead and add me as a friend (drc@pobox.com) or let me know and I will send you an invitation to join mine. Meanwhile, share life with your friends.

Join me in remembering the following global prayer concerns:
• Pray for missionary kids who have started back to school following the Christmas break.
• January 30 is the annual Day of Prayer for Corsica. Put it on your calendar and plan to join Christians around the world in interceding for the island and her people.
• Pray for an intensive week of evangelism on the university campuses in Germany. Volunteer teams from Tennessee are leading this effort.
• Pray for an important meeting on January 13 with International World Changers volunteers in Prague.
• Pray for missionaries in Eastern Europe many of whom have little or no heat and hot water due to shortages in Russia.