new Twitter acount

We now have a twitter account, http://twitter.com/networkingjesus, follow us and spread the word! Here we will be posting what is new with Networking Jesus, bible verses, and many other things to come. We also encourage followers to tag Networking Jesus in their tweet about how God has changed or influenced their life, any pray requests they have, or anything else you think others would enjoy to here or you want them to hear. If you do not have a twitter account, you can also post these here on the blog, or on http://www.therebelution.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10226.

Status Updates

The first idea everyone seemed to jump on was posting daily status updates for a month. We are trying to get as many people as we can to post a Bible verse as their status update, everyday for a month, on whatever social networking sites they are part of. Imagine logging onto Facebook and seeing the main screen full of Bible verses and God’s love. It would expose non-Christians to God and promote ‘Godly’ living instead of the ‘worldly’ living most status updates talk about. This idea is still being fully developed, but this is what we have so far:

What: A bible verse posted as your status update. It has not been decided what the guidelines are on the verses yet.

When: March or April. Exact dates not set in stone yet.

Where: On every social networking site your a part of!

How: We will create a Facebook event (possibly called 'A status update a day keeps God in your ways'), and hopefully something of this sort on other sites, to invite people to participate and get the word out.

As you can see, nothing is officially decided yet, except that it is going to happen. So any ideas you have on this subject are welcomed.

Should everyone post the same thing everyday or should they post whatever verse they want?
Should we have verses that somehow relate specifically to one another or stick to a specific book?

What should we name the event?

Networking Jesus

One day when I was on Facebook I realized how many status updates I am always reading about what people are doing. Then I thought, what if instead of seeing all these updates on what people are doing, what if we saw all updates on what Jesus is doing, and His Word?

This idea evolved into Networking Jesus in general. Social networking has become huge with the Internet. Companies and people are using social networking programs to expand the amount of people that know about their product. What if we did the same with Jesus; spreading His Word like a company spreads the word about their product? This could go in so many different directions. For example, you could do a Twitter account for Jesus, and people could follow through His Word over time, like a daily online summation of the Bible over a period of time, or posting sections and parts of the Bible as the ‘tweet’ (I personally don’t have a Twitter account so I don’t know how this works). I don’t know if anyone has done any of these things before or anything like them, but I thought this would be a great way to spread the Word of God, using the technology we love.

Overall, I have this idea, but it requires a large Christian network before you can successfully start something like this, so I am spreading the word of my idea through forums, sites, and now this blog. Hopefully we can soon switch from spreading the idea of spreading the word of God to actually doing it with this wonderfully technology we have! Here in this blog is the place where we will update you on what is new with Networking Jesus and how you can help spread the word, and where you can write us your ideas and opinions. The more people and the the more input, the more effective networking Jesus will be. With the strength of God and a large network of Christians, I believe this could be huge!

Banners!

We will be creating banners for blogs, Facebook, and Myspace profiles. They will feature something........