Lately, I’ve been hearing a great deal about serving the Lord, and I’ve questioned my own service to the Lord. At church this past Lord’s Day, I believe Pastor was talking about how our call is to service…our call is not to become Christians and rest on our laurels, but that we should all be finding out in what capacity we can serve Him and serve Him.
I’ve been thinking about how I can serve God. There are enough geeks at my church to build a Cray Supercomputer, I think. I’ve been thinking about what I can offer in terms of my technology background, web site administration, etc. There’s really not much. Everything I can do, someone else has already done. I’ll keep my ear to the ground, etc., in case there IS something I can do, but at this time, I’m wondering what my service can be.
Lately, I have been talking to some people that I met playing The Matrix Online, and I realized that a part of my service to the Lord is sharing my faith to a group of people who often are neglected due to the Church’s negative image of “the gamer”. I’ve been able to send Bibles and books to friends through this, and I’ve been able to answer their questions about religious matters. One of these friends actually asked me if I would consider setting up a forum so that people could ask questions and have them answered, etc. I initially considered the idea to be not so good…didn’t seem like it would be easy, etc….religious forums often degenerate into personal attack-fests, etc. But after I thought about all these arguments, I realized that I had the ability to set this up, and with the forum softwares that are out there, I have the ability to moderate the forums to try and keep things civil, etc.
So the Bible Q&A forums were born. You can find these forums at http://www.thedow.org, so please, go and register….take part in the discussions I hope will happen on there. I never intended to become a Bible Answer Man, or anything of the sort. This is a place where people can come and ask questions of people regarding some of the difficult Biblical concepts with which we Christians are familiar.
I’m also always happy to take any criticism on this thing. All it can do is make it better. And if it degenerates into a brawling mess, I always have the option of completely removing it. :) But if the Lord will use it to bring one person to His truth, then it was worth it.
awesome!
I joined, but you already knew that. Ask away people!