I like the people that I work with. No, I’m not kissing up (actually, I don’t think they read my blog anyways). I’m just grateful that I get to work with people who don’t put limits on God. Now, take my collegue Durand Robinson with a ministry called CreativeWorks, a ministry of GEM. CreativeWorks and eDOT work together a lot but you just gotta like they way Durand thinks. His job with CreativeWorks is to help the church in Europe think outside the box. Most churches in Europe are small with even smaller budgets. One of the things he does is help them think how they can use the small $$$ that they have for really big things.

Here is just one of his ideas (well, maybe not his exactly - but an idea that he is helping others know about) - a really cheap translation system for a church. Now, my American readers are probably wondering why you would need that as if you live in a town with more than language, then there is a different church for each language. But here in Europe, there are not that many churches to go to let alone having an option of what language it will be in. On any given day, I’ll hear German, English, Italian, and French spoken in our little town. So this idea of a cheap translation system (which can also be used for those that are hearing-impaired) is wonderful.

But to me, I get really pumped at looking at how we can assist the European churches so that they can have real vision for what God can do with their churches and then to come up with solutions (in my case, usually technical solutions) to make it happen. To me, thinking like this is about removing the limitations we place on God and instead of saying “Oh, that can’t be done because of this or that”, its about saying “Wow, that would be really impactful in our church’s community - ok God, how do you want to do this?”

This next week, I’ll be attending a conference with several other like-minded people who have a vision of using the Internet to reach non-English speaking people with the Gospel. We will be working on putting together ways that the Internet and various online technologies can be used in helping people come to understand God’s love for them.

The Internet is to be used for God’s purposes, pray with us that He will reveal how He wants to use it and that we won’t get bogged down with the “limits” we want to place on Him.