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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have had our own website for our church for the last year. My purpose in setting it up was to provide an easy way for our people to get audio copies of messages they wanted and to refer their friends and acquaintances to our site as well. As such, our site has been a success and a blessing to our ministry.<\/p>\n
An unexpected but welcome additional blessing has been the world-wide attention we have received as well. I don’t mean to imply that we have received attention in great numbers! Our site gets very low traffic. But it is interesting to read sitemeter and see where our traffic comes from and why. Our own people are one thing, but we have gotten interest from many countries around the world.<\/p>\n
This last week, we had two visits from China. I was particularly interested to see that one visitor spent almost 13 minutes on the site. Both of these visitors used a similar search to reach us, and it is this type of search that I have noticed increasing our traffic since last fall.<\/p>\n
What is our ‘big’ attention getter?<\/p>\n
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Pilgrim’s Progress! Almost all those who arrive at our church site from ‘somewhere else’ are looking for information about Pilgrim’s Progress. Some of them spend a good deal of time on our site as a result.<\/p>\n
My prayer is that the Lord might use our feeble efforts to bring some to Christ by this means. Perhaps we will not know of any of this in this lifetime, but may God use what we have for his glory.<\/p>\n
I mention this primarily as a suggestion to pastors. Why don’t you take your people through Pilgrim’s Progress as well? Feel free to use our study guides if you like them. I "pinched" a set of study guides from Mount Calvary Baptist Church for the purpose of preparing for our own use of the material. Our study guides are adaptations of these. (I am a tinkerer, I can’t leave well enough alone!!!)<\/p>\n
And if you do go through Pilgrim’s Progress with your church, make the audio and study guides available on your site. You will get visits from around the world this way. Perhaps the Lord might not use my sermons to reach someone, but maybe yours are better!<\/p>\n
And Pilgrim’s Progress would be a great blessing to your church people as well\u2026 sort of a fringe benefit for this project! (And here I thought it was the main point all along!)<\/p>\n
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