The Director of the Pentecost Men’s Ministry (PEMEM), Apostle Vincent Anane Denteh, has urged churches to deliberately invest in digital media for the purposes of evangelism.
Speaking on the topic, ‘The Church and Missions in a Digital World,’ Apostle Anane Denteh who is an Executive Council Member of The Church of Pentecost, urged church leaders to purchase digital media gadgets and train persons on the digital media space to successfully conduct missions work on that space.
He indicated that with over 5 billion people living in the digital space, missionaries need to be strategic in getting the gospel to them.
He stated: ‘The digital space is a place where many people in the world now live, and God is interested in them. Hence, missionaries must be interested in their souls.’
He highlighted how digital media helps missionaries minister to people in hard-to-reach areas simultaneously.
Apostle Denteh also spoke about the need to understand the whole concept of the digital world, how it operates and how to penetrate there with the gospel.
According to him, the Church’s vision to be a global church, includes the sharing of the gospel to people in the digital space and planting churches there. To achieve this, he proposed a ‘Church Digital Missionary Model,’ where every Christian with a digital device is called to share the gospel in the virtual realm.
‘The church must orient all such persons with the basic steps of evangelism so they can pick it up,’ he stressed.
The PEMEM Director mentioned that while some emerging technologies like AI may be perceived as ‘threats’ to Christianity, the Church must seize these innovations and transform them for the advancement of the Kingdom.
He noted that social media is a crucial mission field, emphasising the need for intentional engagement with Christian bloggers to push the Church’s contents and put together persons with various expertise within a variety of fields to effectively manage their digital media presence.
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