John Piper’s last chapter in his book Finally Alive begins this way:

“We’re ending this book on the ground.  On the street.  In the car.  At Starbucks.  In the back yard.  In school.  At work.  Over lunch.  On the phone.  On Facebook and MySpace.  And text messaging.  And Skyping.  And blogging.  And airplanes.  And a hundred ordinary conversations.  We’re ending with personal evangelism – an old-fashioned commitment in new contexts for the sake of the new birth in thousands of spiritually dead people for the glory of Jesus Christ.”

That phrase – “old-fashioned commitment in new contexts” caught my eye,  as did some of his examples – like blogging and Facebook.  It is a call to use today’s social and technological contexts for sharing the gospel.

I just started using Facebook about a month ago.  It is a great way to connect with people…and a great way to waste your life.  Many of the comments are trivial, even mindless.  Words, words, and more words with little significance.  But couldn’t we use it to share important thoughts and ideas?  To share what Christ means to us?  To fill the “walls” of our “friends” with Jesus?  Lovingly – not in your face.  Naturally – flowing out of who we are in Christ. Facebook is all about sharing what we are doing and thinking – so let’s share about what we are thinking and doing that relates to Christ.

And that is only one context.  How might we use every context we have as an opportunity to share about Christ?  I don’t usually think this way, but I need to!  I need to think about how I might use every situation to share Christ with others.

What if we filled our conversations and blogs and e-mails and phone calls and “walls” and towns with Jesus – “for the sake of the new birth in thousands of spiritually dead people for the glory of Jesus Christ”?