Technology—gotta love it!
I live in Dallas but I'm in Seattle right now, having joined my husband for some badly needed Sabbath rest. There is internet access in our hotel room for both our laptop computers. I am able to retrieve my email from anywhere and stay in touch on my schedule.
From here I am able to update our ministry's website (Probe.org, where I serve as "webmistress"). From here I am able to access maps for my husband's treks to go hang out with Jesus in some of His finest creation. From here I am able to do research for the book I'm writing. From here I'm able to contribute to one of the coolest places on the internet, Bible.org
This is convenient for me today, but the wonder of technology goes far beyond convenience. The internet is an incredible thing!
It means a Christian sister serving in the Peace Corps can go to an internet café on Sunday mornings and see the video of our pastor's sermon one week after I did.
It means women engaged in serving the Kingdom wherever they are have access to the ministry tools we are preparing and sharing from the women's section of Bible.org.
It means women with the spiritual gift of teaching have a growing pool of resources for helping them dig into the Word for themselves and prepare lessons to feed the ewes in their care.
It means women who are in pain can read articles of comfort and encouragement from a responsible, trustworthy biblical perspective.
It means on this blog, women of various stripes—but all committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ—can offer the wisdom that comes from years of pursuing Jesus and His Word passionately. . . and women of various nations can interact with us as online sisterfriends. One of my mentors defined discipleship as anything that moves another believer closer to Christ. The technology of the internet means that we can help disciple each other, women all over the world, as we all seek to become the women God delights to make us.
Whether you join us from the comfort of your recliner through wireless internet in your home, or a barely-furnished internet café on the other side of the world, welcome! We rejoice in God's good gift that allows us to do this!
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...is that I was reading your blog from my iPod. Point taken!
Technology premeates physical and spiritual walls to equip people who are ministering in "closed" countries (but NOTHING's impossible with God, anyway), and enables us to encourage sisters whom we have yet to see.
Thank you for the sobering and exciting reminder that what we publish here can create ripples through the world and impact eternity.
There are gonna be some great parties going on in Glory, I tell ya.
Heather, I had to go back and read what I had written to connect the dots with your comment! That's often a problem with smart women. . . you think on a completely different plane!
Gwynne, that is stunning. The Georgian war is only a couple days old and you already know two different perspectives on it, from people over there! ::::shaking head::::
Between email, blogs and YouTube, we have up-to-the-minute reporting that lets the rest of the world know what's happening. What an amazing time we live in! (By the way, we also have new ways of displaying our ignorance, like the people posting responses to a YouTube video about the war asking when they're going to bomb Atlanta. . . *sigh* . . . .)
Couldn't agree more...isn't it amazing. Just sent the link to a friend in Moscow. Her read on the Georgian war looks different from Moscow central! The world is getting flat...and I love hearing from our far flung sisterhood.
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