Multimedia CD-ROM
St. Matthias Media. £5.99
Available from The Good Book Company (020 8942 0880)
2 Ways to Live started as an evangelistic booklet from the Phillip Jensen stable of Australian evangelicalism. Setting out plainly what it means to live for self and to live for Christ, it enjoyed much fruitful use. But now a transformation has taken place. The whole thing and more, has been put onto CD-ROM so that your friend's computer could be the vehicle for his or her conversion!
The CD includes an introduction, the gospel message of 2 Ways to Live, a series of answers to basic apologetic questions, and four short video testimonies (and yes, since it's from Australia, there is a chap named Bruce talking about how he came to Christ!). Users can browse through the menu and choose what they want to look at. If they choose to explore some intellectual questions, they will find people like evangelist John Chapman and apologist Kirsten Birkett giving answers. At the end of the presentation there is a challenge to choose to live God's way, and the user clicks an icon if he wants to make that decision.
Some people might feel this is a bit too facile, and could give the impression of 'click here to go to heaven'. However, the comments that follow make it clear that conversion to Christ is nothing superficial.
It looks like a really useful evangelistic tool at a very reasonable price. It may be the kind of thing that might attract some interest in the modern computerised office workplace. The system requirements for using this CD-ROM are listed as Pentium class processor, Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, Microsoft Internet Explorer (required), 11 MB of available RAM, sound card (required), QuickTime 4 (full installer included on this CD-ROM), colour monitor displaying 640x480.
The CD created a lot of interest in our home group, and we have already been able to use it with a seeker.
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