Christian Video Gaming News- Winning Souls to Christ in World Of Warcraft

[Ian David]

Winning Souls to Christ in The World of Warcraft (Satire)
Christian Video Gaming News

Christian game enthusiasts around the US are turning the world of Azeroth inside the new video game, "World of Warcraft" into a mission field, where virtual battles are fought and real souls are won to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Billy Houston, a Landover Baptist Senior High youth, has been sharing Jesus in the virtual gaming world for over three years. "I evangelized in Lineage 2, Everquest, Diablo, and a bunch of other games," he says, "but I haven't seen nearly as many people who are as open to hearing the Gospel message as I have inside the World of Warcraft." Billy has what gamers call, a Level 57 Undead Priest with Holy Focus. "I'm also in one of the largest Christian guilds on our server," he says. "I think the reason so many people are open to hearing about Jesus in the World of Warcraft is because the majority of people who play the game are lonely kids who don't have any friends. I doubt any of them play sports so you can pretty much guess that there are lots of gay boys and fat little pale-faced Wiccan girls on the servers who hate themselves and escape into virtual characters so they don't have to deal with their pathetic lives. When they hear that someone loves them, even if it is just the Lord Jesus Christ, they always want to hear more!"

Sports: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1004/nosports.html
Gay Boys: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0704/homoprevention.html
Wiccan Girls: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0702/wiccans.html

The World of Warcraft is ripe for eager young Christian evangelists to ply their trade. "I'm studying to be a missionary at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Virginia," says one gamer (who prefers to remain anonymous) and sharing the Good News of Jesus in Azeroth is a great way to practice soulwinning in Arkansas, where I'm from originally. I think that when Jesus said in Mark 16:15, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, He knew that True Christians™ like me in the future, would be called into virtual worlds where we'd be witnessing to gnomes, trolls, night elves and all sorts of other creatures. I also think that verse applies to Christian astronaut missionaries in the future who will encounter and evangelize unsaved alien life forms on other planets. I believe with my whole heart that Christian gamers are sincerely answering the Great Commission of Jesus and we are able to do it without getting out of our chairs or leaving our bedrooms. I bet the Apostle Paul is so jealous!"

One prospective missionary at the Landover Baptist Christian Academy says, "Most people who are mean, liberal, nasty, lonely, unsaved losers in real life choose to play the Horde (an evil race of characters in the World of Warcraft) and people and guilds who are conservative, Republican and pretty much easier to win to Jesus Christ with are found in the Alliance. That's why the real True Christians™ pick the Horde to play as characters and start their guilds in Horde territory because they like the challenge of sharing Christ's message in a perilous, lava-soaked, environment. Sometimes you have to pester people for weeks before they listen to you. I followed some stupid gnome around for 8-hours until he finally told me that he would accept Jesus as his Personal Savior if I would just promise not to contact him anymore. Now that rocks!"

More:
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0105/wow.html



http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0104/ps2.html


Please note: If your parents ask you where you got your new PlayStation 2, just tell them that your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, delivered it to you via the U.S. Postal Service in exchange for your soul.

[malmapus]

1. ok, I found most of that to be real sorry

"Sometimes you have to pester people for weeks before they listen to you. I followed some stupid gnome around for 8-hours until he finally told me that he would accept Jesus as his Personal Savior if I would just promise not to contact him anymore. Now that rocks!"

I'm sorry thats not witnessing thats plain harrasement in game, if some guy was doing that to me...if the game is PvP I'd be killing his avatar, but if not thats what "ignore" functions are for and reporting them.

What the heck is that crap about liberals playing Horde!!@???

[SouthernDem2004]

2. Pffft. What kind of loser would play "alliance"? :)

[malmapus]

4. apparently repugs lol =D

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[SouthernDem2004]

8. Ha! A true Democrat would not be part of such an "Alliance." Banned

together to oppress the Horde and force their beliefs upon them.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Tell this bastard to meet me in Unreal Tournament 2004.

I will gladly frag his ass into submission! :evilgrin:

[malmapus]

5. lol I was thinking if only they would visit Darktide server on Asherons

Call, lotta peeps need to be "saved" there :evilgrin:

[carlvs]

6. I don't buy it!

First, if anyone was bugging people like that in a game, it is most likely that the other players would "gang-up" on that person and indulge in a little PKing (Player Killing for those not in the gaming world.)

Second, there was this little word in the article's title that automatically threw the piece into suspicion:

Satire

[malmapus]

7. oh man lol yeah I didn't look at where the links were

I soo need my coffee hehe

[SouthernDem2004]

9. It was kind of obvious. People do not chat much in WOW. Occasional

taunt and insult, yes. Chat, no.