I have been watching the Symposium on Christianity in the Digital Age which is being streamed from St John's College, Durham.
As someone who is going to candidate as a Deacon in the Methodist Church and who is passionate about being mission-focused, committed to enabling outreach, evangelism and service in the real world, I am equally as passionate about how we engage with the billions of people using the internet. How can we reflect Christ in cyberspace?
Some of the points made at the symposium make good discussion starters.
Maybe, for instance, the MDO should have a division of "Digital Deacons" who go into cyberspace, engage with people where they are already meeting eg Facebook, My Space, Warcraft?
We need to make God the centre of our virtual world as well as our real world. How can we be Incarnational on the internet and introduce the cyber population to Christ?