What Pulpit Do You Preach From?
Rome often persecuted the earliest Christians, yet God used the Pax Romana and the Roman roads to facilitate the spread of the Gospel. Chinese Communists also persecuted Christians, yet Chairman Mao’s roads allowed Christian missionaries to reach distant Chinese mission fields far more easily than had ever been possible before.
Back in the 90s, the Internet was often referred to as the information superhighway. That was prophetic. Today God is using the Internet to spread the Gospel—especially in places like Israel, where most bookstores don’t carry Christian Bibles and Israelis who want to learn about Yeshua face persecution by anti-missionary activists.
You may not like everything you see on the internet, but according to Erez Soref, President of One for Israel, in Israel “the street ministry today is not in the local square but online and with social media platforms.”
President Theodore Roosevelt referred to his office as a "bully pulpit." Today, thanks to the Internet, we need to realize that all of us have a bully pulpit. Go ye therefore and preach the gospel.
Margot Armer