Join the #BoldChristian Challenge

A friend of mine, Katelyn Fagan of What's Up Fagans, recently created the #BoldChristian challenge. She is encouraging Christians to participate in daily uplifting challenges, and then to share their experience on social media.

As she outlines on her blog:

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When will it start?

The challenge will begin on Monday, October 6, 2014 and run until Monday, October 20, 2014. Each day you will receive an email the night before the next day’s challenges. Each email will include the day’s “theme” and what challenge(s) go along with it. There will be applicable scriptures (from the KJV), and some ideas on how to meet the day’s challenge. I am doing my best to make them open-ended and easy to adapt to whatever your life situation may be.

Examples of Challenges:

• Ask for prayer requests and share about your testimony of prayer as you do so.
• Carry your scriptures with you all day, and read for one minute every time you sit down.
• Share your testimony and conversion stories.
• Invite others to read the Bible, go to church, or pray.
• Defend God’s name.
• Pray over your meals in public.
• Share about your favorite scripture or scripture stories
• And more!

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When I read about this #BoldChristian challenge, I immediately thought of several recent talks from General Authorities. Elder Bednar recently admonished that members of the church, "...sweep the Earth as with a flood" with uplifting, Christ-centered messages. 

I know that social media at times can be overwhelming, time-consuming, and draining even, but I also know that modern technology was created for God's purposes. He gave us the technology that we have in order to further advance the work of salvation throughout the world.

I too challenge you to join the #BoldChristian challenge HERE. I'm guessing it might put you outside of your comfort zone, might be annoying to or completely overlooked by friends, but just the thought of social media being flooded with testimonies of Christ feels so right to me. 

That's why this blog was created in the first place. 

To close in the words of Elder Bednar: "My beloved brothers and sisters, what has been accomplished thus far in this dispensation communicating gospel messages through social media channels is a good beginning—but only a small trickle. I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood. Beginning at this place on this day, I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth—messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy—and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood."