Blog Statistics
So recently I noticed there is some info showing that so many people had seen a link I shared from my blog. It wasnt until today that I actually noticed a statistics or analytics tab in the blog. I actually don't care about numbers, because I just want to be faithful to God and find opportunities to share the Gospel.
Years ago, in 1998, I created a website, after getting out of the military, and then created several sites, most were informational and pointed people to Christ, resources I could find on the internet back then, and though hardly anyone used a computer and hardly anyone was on the internet back then (most didnt even have an email), I kept those websites up for years, but because the free site ended up charging, I ended up letting those go, and archive.org wasnt a thing back then, so pretty much all of that is lost. However, there was a time around 2008 that I found out about free blogs and started using those (to share evangelism experiences to encourage others), then I got a job and was working crazy long hours, eventually had some really bad happen, and then something else, and ended up out of the workforce, only recently I took up blogging again, and use it pretty much only to redirect people to the gospel, but it mainly provides answers to non Christians and helps to correct misunderstandings believers have as well as new believer resources. And I use the blog as a way to give an answer but also to include the gospel. The point is to answer their questions and redirect them to the gospel or examine yourself page.
So this post is about an update on the blogs I use for sharing the gospel.
The below was kind of amazing to me. Little ol me was used by God like this? How absolutely wonderful it is that we can globally share the gospel with people online in the tech era (pretty much since 2015 everyone is online, and smart phones became a thing), we can access the world right in the palm of our hands 247 365 today. I doubt the Apostles could imagine such a thing.
This should encourage you, to know that if God uses you for the gospel, what God does never returns void. Regardless if people receive, examine, investigate and believe. Seeds are planted, knowledge is shared, and God gets the glory. We are simply faithful in proclaiming the Gospel and loving one another as we walk and live out the Christian life.
Here are the statistics just from year one, this year:
I did nothing but provide answers to people in conversations on social media (mostly from facebook), in my day to day interactions, and that somehow reached 15,000 people. And if I am reading this right... I've reached people from 190 Countries, (the top ones are only listed).
All of this is simply from placing a link in a conversation
with some helpful dialogue in the post.
From what I can see, the visitors also look at other posts on the blog. I had used a simple blog format so the visitors only see the page they're sent to, but turns out there is a way to search for posts in the blog that i was unaware of (lol), till today. I dont even use hashtags, don't even have monthly/annual side bar. It is just a plain webpage with few images on it.
If I can do this, so can you.
Whether you are introverted, ambivert or extroverted you can do this. You can share Christianity online, graciously, gently and confidently, and then start doing so in the real world as well (with easy access to your blog for answering questions irl). There's no longer a reason to worry about not knowing the answers to things because either your blog answers page or gotquestions.org will have them.
You can simply use my blog answers blog links. OR Start a blog, or create a website.
For your site:
>Regularly back up your pages on archive.org and the table of contents to the blog*
>Post FAQ on your social media page from the blog.**
>Leave the info to your kids, family, Christian friends, so it can be used by others now and long after you left to Heaven.
Evangelism Resources
God bless!
Footnote:
* in case the country or state you are in or the platform you use, remove your blog or website as "hate speech" or silence "free speech" and" religious speech", you can use the archive.org table of contents as a link to your preserved blog/site and still utilize it online. Since you are not saying those things on social media, but simply providing a offsite link (they cant censor or ban you for linking to something offsite, they can censor or ban you for what you actually say in a social media post); more on this and other helpful guides in the Evangelism Resources section.
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1. You can certainly utilize Facebook to reach the unsaved and growing believers in your circle of influence/network there by posting a Daily FAQ and Holiday FAQ post. There are various and cool ideas on how to do that and what to put there. The Evangelism Resource section will have that there soon as well. Great ideas. In commenting on Facebook, note they currently move you from Most Relevant area to a hidden "all comments" area, and few people are going to go there. So they have purposely used an algorithm to move certain people to the most visible area, and i am not sure if that is coded to show liberals and anti Christian folk first or what, but if you comment on those in teh Most Relevant area, you have more opportunity for more eyes to see. Just pick one of the most relevant top comments to comment under. But also (big tip:) when you do post your own general reply under a post, do not include the website link. Wait a minute, then edit it, and add the link. That should help bypass the algorithm sorting you out to the back of the view (where no one will see your post). It is horrible that they do this, it should be first come, first posted, first seen basis. Unless that is resolved one day and everything is equally visible, with out discrimination, we have to remember certain work arounds.
2. IG algorithm marks anyone who posts a link in their post, and pushes your content to the bottom. They push you far down in the results that you'll not be seen hardly at all. So post a blog table of contents link in your bio area, and simply redirect people to your bio and in the comments or post description say something like "link in bio "Jesus Proved His Deity, #632" or whatever the post or comment is about (when you type information in the post/reply, include that bio info last). I hate that there isnt instant access there to just let people click a link, instead IG operates in a way to make it difficult for people to go and search for something. MZ gen are not even interested in things they cant access immediately right then. This is why Facebook and Twitter are a better platform. But you'll have the same issues on Youtube you have to redirect them to your bio page to access a link. Hopefully that will change in the future. And hopefully Congress will make it illegal to suppress speech esp religious worldview. The Christian beliefs and the Bible are foundational in the West and in USA and online platforms are the public square of the day. Tech should not be able to censor us nor allow people to flag us for hate speech or any similar nonsense. This is one reason I used this blog to help Christians, and created the Evangelism Resources information, to help you navigate and stay safe from being booted off a platform. Esp if you are on Facebook where all your friends and family are connected to you at. You have to be wise and stealth there.
Note: I hardly did any posting last month, because I was recovering at my moms for 2.5 weeks from a surgery, and there is no internet there, and I was busy doing some things at home once I got back. So there was not much evangelism online last month.
