Sites promoting suicide and euthanasia, Satanism, atheism, homosexuality, and other social and religious ills sprang up. Pornography could be downloaded in the privacy of one's home. Children could access it with the click of a mouse. It was this proliferation of evil that Christian ministries aimed to counteract with good and the gospel. Most denominations now have Web sites, and local churches offer home pages where visitors can access information about worship services and send the pastor e-mail.
Users can visit a prayer garden, view a prayer list, and submit requests.
They can browse in a gift shop and read answers to questions regarding any biblical topic. All this has serious overtones for the church. Christian researcher George Barna says that 25 million of adults use the Net each month for religious expression. One out of six teens said that within the next five years they expect to use the Net as a substitute for going to church. Under space The daring-do of this century also opened up physical regions previously closed.