As a 21st century Christian, I consume data like cups of tea and I earn a crust surfing the net all day. When I like to educate myself or look at Christian merchandise, I find the web seriously lacking! Because Christianity is not a commercial entity it means that there is not a professional market out there to satisfy my craving. Sure there are many amateurish attempts, hobbyist and even the odd ebayer who provide information, news and products, but with the exception of the e-commerce Wesley Owen, where is everybody?!?
With this in mind I thought I would delve a bit further, a basic search on Google found that there are around 2M websites in the UK which make reference to the Bible, this figure is 6 times greater than websites with a reference to Koran. But taking a further look at the data it would appear that more users are searching for information on ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’ than that of Christianity (see the graph). Why then are so many people fixed on false gods?
As Christians, we need to start using the web to develop our knowledge, such sites as Facebook allow Christian communities to develop discussions, there needs to be more Christian e-shops (this includes clicks and mortar) selling merchandise other than bibles in order relate to all Christians, young and old. We need to show the almighty God that we can adapt to change and not become set in our content ways.
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I totally agree with your comment re: christians using the internet for much wider commercialisation, but I think that is already happening but when I look at sites that market themselves as christian many look unprofessional and dated, just like christian films were a decade ago!!
I would. like many other christians be able to create wealth for the Kingdom, my family and church using the internet in a God honouring way.
I was actually doing some research on what christians search for on the net (came accross your blog) and realised this is nigh impossible. My niche by the way is aimed at christians and people looking for Christ.