{"id":87,"date":"2012-03-23T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:11:01","slug":"157-christian-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/157-christian-websites.html","title":{"rendered":"157-christian-websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Christian Websites<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Building and running one of the Internet Christian websites is an important part of ministry and outreach.\u00a0 You might think that I would say that running a Christian website building company but as you know we&#8217;ll build for free or more likely lower cost than most people on the web.\u00a0 So I don&#8217;t say this out of self promotion (or rather company promotion), no I say it based on the falling numbers of young Christians!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that in 2001 the UK held a census which showed that 71% of people claimed that Christianity was their religion.\u00a0 Sounds great until you hear some other figures.\u00a0 For example Tearfund held a survey that showed that in practise only one in ten people actually go to church weekly.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Christian perhaps this isn&#8217;t so surprising since you&#8217;ll see it happening at your church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 20011 another census was held in the UK and it found that the number of people claiming to be Christians had fallen to only 55% of the population.\u00a0 Perhaps this fall was simply people being more accurate about their beliefs but however you want to spin the result it has to show a marked decline in people who believe they are Christians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In particular there was a noticeable difference depending on your age.\u00a0 Something like 38% in the age group of 18-34 believed.\u00a0 But in the over 55 age group over 70% believed!\u00a0 In short the younger you are the less likely you are to believe in God and understand Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now if you think about it where does this group of young people hang out.\u00a0 Well they hang out on the web.\u00a0 They look at interesting stuff and look for interesting content on websites and that includes Christian websites.\u00a0 So I believe passionately that building websites for potential Christians and existing Christians is absolutely part of every Christian ministry.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t look out the web will have washed away a whole generation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Building Christian websites isn&#8217;t difficult and it doesn&#8217;t have to be expensive.\u00a0 You can get a high quality website for as little as FREE! Yes I did say free.\u00a0 You can go onto Facebook now or Google or any number of places and create a web presence.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll take no more than twenty minutes for someone who knows what they are doing or a couple of hours if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Alternatively come to us and we&#8217;ll sort something out for you.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t afford it we do sometimes do free stuff but in all likelyhood it&#8217;ll cost between \u00a3250 and \u00a3700.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that today you join the people already creating Christian websites and go and create your own Christian website.\u00a0 I want to reach out to the potential that is there and help them to find out about Christianity.\u00a0 Help them to find God.\u00a0 If this is what you want too why not get in touch, I&#8217;ll give you free help to get you Facebook site running.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get together and help God dominate the online space.\u00a0 You never know one day we might have more Christian websites around than anything else.\u00a0 Just imagine more Christain websites that any other sort of site.\u00a0 Something to ensure that all of our youth and youngsters have the chance to learn about Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Websites &nbsp; Building and running one of the Internet Christian websites is an important part of ministry and outreach.\u00a0 You might think that I would say that running a Christian website building company but as you know we&#8217;ll build for free or more likely lower cost than most people on the web.\u00a0 So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}