@article {1951,
	title = {Do Digital Decisions Disciple?},
	year = {2015},
	month = {03/2015},
	abstract = {Online evangelists report the equivalent success of one Billy Graham crusade per day.

Three years ago, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) shifted its focus to online evangelism. It laid off about 50 people{\textemdash}10 percent of its staff{\textemdash}and {\textquotedblleft}redeployed resources to focus on areas of greater impact.{\textquotedblright}

The change seems to be paying off. In 2014, the BGEA shared the gospel with almost 9.5 million people around the world. Of those, only about 180,000 were in a live audience at a crusade, while 7.5 million were reached through BGEA websites.

Of the 1.6 million people who told the BGEA they prayed {\textquotedblleft}to accept Jesus Christ as [their] Savior{\textquotedblright} in 2014, less than 15,000 did so in person, while more than 1.5 million did so with the click of a mouse.},
	url = {http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/march/do-digital-decisions-disciple.html},
	author = {Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra}
}
