'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Social Experiment: Christian Facebook Group Grows To 800,000
[IndyChristian Ed. Note... You'll remember the name Andrew Sears, as President of TechMission.org -- the Association for Christian Community Computing Centers... such as the UBcafe here in Indianapolis. Many of you met Andrew and his Boston-based tech crew at CCDA Indianapolis 2005 when they hosted the Cyber Cafe at the convention. ]
[article by Peter Elliott, Indianapolis]
Andrew Sears started a Facebook group last year wondering if the Internet could connect Christians the same way it had connected consumers for e-commerce.
Based on the results nearly a year later, the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
Sears launched the "One Body of Christ Experiment (all Christians of Facebook)" group last March. Twenty-four hours later, the group had 356 members. As the group approaches its one-year anniversary, it has more than 770,000 members and growing.
"What we thought when we started it is that there are so many divisions in Christianity by denominations, by race, by income and other things," Sears said. "There's an old quote that says, ‘The most segregated hour of the week is 11 a.m. on Sunday morning.'
"The Internet is very good at connecting a lot of different people in a lot of different ways. If millions of buyers and sellers can get together on sites like eBay, why not connect the body of Christ and its diverse backgrounds?"
Sears, a 36-year-old MIT graduate, sees "One Body of Christ" as a natural outgrowth of...
[continued at EverydayChristian.com]
[Also read: 10 Things You Can Do To End Online Segregation]
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