Jesus Going Viral - Part 2

(To read "Jesus Going Viral - Part 1," click here.)

I want to give you an example of the Gospel going viral. (viral: "becoming very popular by circulating quickly from person to person, especially on the Internet: the most memorable viral videos; a book that's gone viral." ~dictionary.com)

I have a list of some of my top blog posts based on the number of retweets (see below). At the top of the list is one entitled: "12 Things Atheists Believe About God." As of the writing of this post it has 3,100+ retweets. (Click on it to see.)

And so approximately 3,100+ people (give or take for revisits) have not only read "12 Things Atheists Believe About God" themselves, but they've thought it was valuable enough to click the retweet button and share it with their Twitter followers.

Now let's just say that each of those 3,100 people have 10 followers. That's a potential audience of 31,000. And what if they have 100 followers each? It jumps to 310,000. (Follow me?) And then what if it's 1,000 followers each that the 3,100 people have? Add three zeroes and you get: 3.1 million.

And we're talking just one blog post by one person. Now that's Jesus going viral!

Just think what you (and the Holy Spirit) can do. :)

Top blog posts based on the number of retweets:

1. 12 Things Atheists Believe About God (5,949 retweets)
2. Chosen (A Dream Come True) (3,854 retweets)
3. 7 Mistakes Christian Bloggers Can Make (2,389 retweets)
4. 10 Wrong Thoughts About God (2,450 retweets)
5. One Man (1,672 retweets)
6. Held in His Arms (1,104 retweets)
7. In Case of Rapture... (787 retweets)
8. An Attitude of Worship (667 retweets)
9. On the Subject of Martyrs (560 retweets)
10. Christ Follower or Christian? (441 retweets)

(retweet numbers updated as of 1/8/12)

"'This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.'" (Matthew 24:14)

"'And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.'" (John 12:32)

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