Category Archives: Ministry

What biblically is “a missionary”?

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Reform­ing­Mis­sions
  1. An “apos­tle” is a missionary
  2. Mis­sions is about the Repro­duc­tion of God’s Church

Resumen: This post explains what is a mis­sion­ary “bib­li­cal speak­ing”.
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What is “our mission”?

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Min­istry

Con­tents

  1. What is the mis­sion of Christianity?
  2. Bib­li­cal Evan­ge­lism
    1. Evan­ge­lism is the plan of sal­va­tion, noth­ing else
    2. Evan­ge­lism is not the “social gospel”.
    3. Evan­ge­lism is a “per­sonal” pre­sen­ta­tion of the gospel to an unsaved.
  3. A “Bib­li­cal” Local Church
    1. What is the body of Christ?
    2. Evan­ge­lism is not get­ting peo­ple into “Chris­t­ian organizations”
    3. Christ’s body (the church) is a self relat­ing, self-edifying, com­mu­nity of faith

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Why am I making so many new websites?

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Min­istry

I orig­i­nally had a sin­gle web­site, www.davidcox.com.mx. On that web­site (my first one I ever did), I have half of it in Span­ish, and the other half in Eng­lish. I also dab­ble around study­ing how to get your web­site noticed by the Search Engines. So in read­ing some tech­ni­cal com­men­taries on this issue, I see that it is highly rec­om­mended that you keep your web­site small and make mul­ti­ple web­sites with dif­fer­ent con­tent on each, and above all, keep it in the same lan­guage. Bingo! I messed up. But since I have so many “other peo­ple” link­ing into my web­site, chang­ing it is dif­fi­cult, first because it needs to be all done now and uploaded and fin­ished. None of this par­cially done stuff like I have to do between my other min­istry work. So that was a fac­tor. Another fac­tor is that I made my web­site with Microsoft Front­page, which I like, but at one point, the site got too big to auto­mat­i­cally update (Front­page freezes for 20 min­utes or so while it is com­par­ing it’s copy on the Inter­net with my hard disk copy). So I have to use a FTP to upload my files. After acci­den­tally upload­ing to the wrong folder on my web­site a few times (eras­ing what was already there), I got frustrated.

Another thing that I am tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion is that it is highly rec­om­mended that you use blog­ging soft­ware. Google, for exam­ple, under­stands how to find con­tent on blogs bet­ter than a nor­mal non-blog site. So to get my writ­ings at least indexed in Google, I need to have them in the right for­mat that the search engines can nav­i­gate the site well. Rather than fight­ing this, I think it is bet­ter to just use a well-know blog and stop the has­sles. I use Word Press which I am learn­ing. (I learned the basics in about 3 hours, and started putting up con­tent the same day.)

Another very impor­tant fac­tor is that your pages are ranked higher in search engines when other people’s sites link to your pages. So the more links com­ing into your pages the higher is the rank­ing. Google has no way of know­ing between 5 web­sites if they are all the same owner or not. So I fig­ure I can link between my sites and get a boost on the ranking.

The Word Press exper­i­ment con­tin­ues, and I am search­ing for nice use­ful plu­g­ins and themes. I am get­ting this down somewhat.