Throughout the history of God and His people, God has blessed some with very practical gifts. In Exodus, God blessed Bezalel and Oholiab with the technical skills needed to build the tabernacle. While the skills needed to build a tabernacle or to understand the literature of ancient Babylon may not be in high demand today, there is no reason to believe that the God who blessed Israel with the skills it needed at the time does not bless his people still with the skills that are needed today. Without a doubt, knowledge of computers is among the list of today s needed skills. This brings me to my final point, which is that computer science has merit in itself in that it is such a needed skill in this, the information age.
Computer science is both a missionary tool and a missions field.
Computers are so valuable because they make it easier to store and transfer information. Such a powerful tool for information provides Christians with a medium by which to transmit the most powerful information. That information being of course, the gospel message. This makes computers a great missions tool, but as I said the computer field is also a great mission field. With such a great demand for computers, there are millions of people who are going into the industry.