Sharing the Gospel online.
There's cautionary advice to give about sharing the gospel online, but there's great news also about the wonderful outlet of sharing the gospel online.
Intro of caution
Witnessing on Social Media
Intro
Grateful to God to been able to share the gospel. Been sharing for much longer but doing well since 2003, both on the streets talking with people about God, while traveling, through a ministry online that connected non believers from several ministries online into one place, (where the chat system translated everything into the language of the country the person reading what was being communicated [between the believer and the seeker], utilizing a powerful govt translation system). I've also shared the gospel online, created websites in the past, provided answers and helps, and these days have a blog site with answers connected to various things around the internet from straight up answers to videos that answer questions.
From the beginning, I've known that the social media outlets, as they were created from myspace to facebook to twitter to everything else, I've known that they would be places where sharing the truth of the Bible, the truth of God, and the issues of modern times (from 2003 to 2008 to 2013 to 2020 till today) would be problematic on these platforms when sharing the gospel. For a long time you could freely share these things and explain things as best as you can. So I was highly cautious in how I replied or commented on anything and in anything I posted on my page as well.
Then recently around 2019 there was a new bizzare thing happening in America where liberals invented something called hate speech. There's no such thing in the world to be honest, it's is just an attempt by liberals to silence free speech globally and in the USA where we have freedom of speech. If you dont like whats being said... then dont listen, and just move on. Instead they are now extreme censoring people in real life, getting people fired, doxxing people, and all kinds of wicked hateful evil satanic things they get away with that purposely harms those who dont hold the same views as them, and those who dont comply (to be brainwashed to believe what the liberal schools have indoctrinated the kids going through them and public colleges for the last 30 years; and now shockingly at workplaces).
So, Around 2020 the liberal nazi police arrived on social media and started to silence anything they opposed, with the blessing of a facebook department of flagging. Further, they formed some kind of internal review department to monitor speech and things posted on fb as if this was communist china. And through algorithms and nazis (keyboard warriors; who are fb users) started flagging posts, comments and/or labeling things disinformation. And those using common sense knew it wasnt disinformation or hate speech when they were being censored; it was whatever they wanted to deem as such, for their political new world order agenda. In 2021 it was revealed through Congress that Facebook founder admitted they were picking things anyone was posting on fb that they disagreed with, and labeling it misinformation or hate speech and shutting down free speech on the platform. They admitted they were the ones who were deciding what was misinformation,(and yet most of those things later turned out to be true), but they still gave warnings to people and locked people out of features on facebook for violating their policies they made up for people using the platform, and banned others. In typical Nazi tactics.
So, knowing they'd be doing this from back when each platform became popular, roughly 2010 or 2012 onwards, I was cautiously using the platform. And good thing too, since today they built algorithms to search out those kinds of speech and mark them as hate or violating policy or incorrectly labeling as misinformation. And even crawl past posts(!) to use against people.
Even though I was cautions this entire time, they recently started allowing users to flag whatever they want to label as hate speech, and there is very limited recourse and hardly any way to not be silenced (having your witnessing arm cut off) especially on facebook, (who currently now owns instagram too). I was cautious but someone took something I said, twisted it to something i wasnt saying nor intending, and it happened to be someone who hates free speech, hates truth, hates different views, hates God and hates Christianity... so they flagged me. 2 of them for the exact same reply. I had to jump through hoops with facebook to try to appeal the decision. But... they do not have to even look at the case. (!)
I'm going to teach you how to AVOID being flagged & banned, and if you get flagged, I'll tell you how to handle the appeal. BUT If you follow my suggestions on the simple cautionary advice on how to share the gospel and talk about the things of God on facebook and instagram and other platforms... they cannot silence you, and you shouldnt find yourself "flagged".
It will benefit you if you follow the advice, the suggestions and ideas below, and you will be able to wiz around social media and share the gospel wherever you are.
Even if you are a slightly timid person, or an introvert.... this is a great avenue for sharing the gospel, becoming more confident, and helping you to step out into sharing the gospel with people one on one out in public, in your family and elsewhere. It's great to start online, since you can have time to respond. and get back to responding when you have thought an answer through, or found and answer you can share. But it is also a great place to always witness, even if you do so offline
Sharing on Social Media
1 How to use social media for sharing the Gospel and talking about the things of God.
2. Sample conversations on social media, and how to handle responding to them cautiously.
3. The fb jail situation moved me more towards 99.9% of linking to offsite posting of answers and resources, to ensure fb haters had no way to flag me anymore. And being very careful how I word things in what I say (which is always a good thing anyway).
More resources and clarity in certain areas will be updated soon.
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