Online Immorality Meets Online Ministry

The growth of immorality online has inspired the growth of a new type of ministry, online evangelism. Christian author and minister Ken Clifton is an example of this new wave of evangelism taking hold.

(PRWEB) October 26, 2004 -- Ken Clifton is not your typical minister. He wears no robes and stands at no podium. He has no church building to maintain and prepare. Instead, he spends his time looking for lost souls on the internet.

"The internet has become a dark underground for sinners of all types," says Clifton. "Whether it be lust or greed or prejudice, it is thick online. It is generally felt by these groups that the internet is exempt from the light of legislation and is a free place to gather."

The claim that the internet is free from legal protections has lately found proof in the case thrown out of the Supreme Court dealing with online pornography. In Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, the court held that "Pictures of what appear to be 17-year-olds engaging in sexually explicit activity do not in every case contravene community standards." Clifton says this establishes a lowest-level morality test for all of the internet. If there is a community with lower standards that has the internet,, the standards must be lowered to that community's standards. It is really getting out of hand, and something must be done," Clifton says.

For him, that something is evangelism. "You have to go to the darkest spot with the gospel," says Clifton. "As Christ said, it is not the well that need a doctor but the sick. This legislative loophole has allowed the sick to gather in one place to receive the gospel, the internet."

For three years, Clifton has been bringing that gospel to those sick online through online discussions. "I don't spam. That is wrong, and the righteous shouldn't try to justify the end with the means. However, you'll find that there are online many people hungry for answers. Getting into a conversation with them could be the greatest day they will ever have."

Clifton estimates that he has reached thousands in only a few years through online discussions and downloads of his free e-book, 30 Days of Providence. He is also author of two books, 777 Things You Can Do In Heaven and A Nation Under God. 777 Things You Can Do In Heaven has just released as an e-book, selling for $4.80, at places like Cokesbury.com and Powells.com, and A Nation Under God is to be featured in a national radio interview within the next month.

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