10 Tips for using Facebook effectively in Christian witness


The rise of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter has had a huge impact on how people interact with each other. Our lives are now communicated to others 24 hours a day, news travels faster than it ever did before, almost instantaneously. We communicate with more friends, more often, and more easily. Whilst social media websites can bring problems they have also brought many opportunities, not least for how Christians can seek to spread the message of the gospel and be a witness for Christ. Here are 10 tips on how you can use websites such as Facebook effectively as a Christian.

1. Ensure that your online testimony is consistent
Are the pictures and videos that you post giving a clear message, or have things become muddied by the videos and links that you post? The effect of posting a gospel text is greatly diminished if moments before you had uploaded pictures of yourself a rock concert! Very often more people will see what you post on Facebook than you imagine, and will very easily see the inconsistencies. Don't be sending out a mixed and confusing message. 
2. Generate posts appropriate to current events
Whenever possible try to post something relevant to current events. Where people's minds are taken up with the latest news story, a scripture text, link or comment related to whatever is current is more likely to attract their attention than something chosen at random. 
3. Link and share and comment on other people's posts
Do you want your Facebook friends to share what you have posted? Then you have to return the favour. Engage with your friends and don't have your profile as a one way street where you never seem to respond to anything which other people post, yet desire their attention in everything you post.
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