I was watching the YouTube staff 2006 highlights. One of the top YouTube vidoes was about YouTubers, featuring clips of other YouTubers. I got the sense that YouTube has grown a large and diverse community of people that record blog-like video clips.
Though I maybe kind of slow noticing (since apparently the Times did a feature about YouTubers), but this is another venue of outreach to non-believers in the areas of debate, evangelism, apologetics, or even theology (if talking to other Christians). If no Christians has realized this yet, I hope this post may spur some Christians to outreach to the YouTube community.
I sense a real oppurtunity for Christians to make waves. There are many Christian blogs now, however I haven’t come across any prominent Christian YouTubers. I really think the first few Christian YouTubers that attempt to reach out, respond to other YouTube videos, and debate in apologetics and doctrine will be prominent. Right now, Christian blogs such as this one are attempting to carve itself an audience, because of the massive amount of blogs available to read by online surfers.
YouTube is a golden oppurtunity to gather an audience.
All you need is a good internet connection and a webcam.
Great thinking. I like your suggestion. I started thinking just this last week of filming some of my witness encounters and putting them on youtube, sort of like way of the master does. I hadn’t thought of using it as a sort of dialog with a no-christian video blogger like you sugested, but that is a fresh idea.
I am starting to see a lot of ministries pop up and use web video presentations of the gospel. 2 such videos are ‘Just Stop and Think’ and ‘Simply Share Jesus’. I have actually made a brief review of each of these on my blog if you want to check that out.
Daniel
Hey Daniel, thanks for the response, I wasn’t aware of the web video ministries you mentioned. I’ll check em out.
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