Google is Searching for Jesus
Google is up to its old tricks again. This time its Google Insights for Search, a nifty tool that reveals who is searching for what, where. I typed in “Jesus” and here are the results:
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El Salvador nabs the number 1 spot for Jesus, making them the nation God will bless…Ahem. This kinda gives you a shift in thinking to know that the United States didn’t even make the top ten list in regional interest! FYI, when I searched for “Jesus Christ” the top country was Eritrea in East Africa. America is not the hub of the Christian faith, the global south is.
Just for fun, I searched by city, and Chicago came up as #10 worldwide – way to go you spiritual seekers (or searchers) you! In a city where there is the lowest proportions of evangelical Christians of any US city and a church attendance of just 11% county-wide, (the city is only 8%), there is a lot of interest in the man Jesus! What might these people be like? How can we befriend them, and in a natural way, present to them this Jesus in their own context and language?
It was also interesting to see WHEN people search for Jesus – as predicted, its always around December and April. Why then do some churches down play the Christian calendar, when it is obviously the time when most people are “searching for Christ?”
Just thinking…
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