Friday, November 08, 2024

To All The World? Jayopsis.com: 20 Years

So here is a mystery and a question that I will never know on this side of heaven. What has been gospel seeds planted throughout the world in 20 years of posting?

I was on a college beach project trip in 1983 to Pensacola Beach with Campus Crusade. During that week, we did multiple events for the opportunity to share Christ with others. My favorite was "Slow motion football' along with others.

Back then, we used the old yellow 4 Spiritual laws tracts and my guess is that I used that little tract to share with hundreds of people over the years. It was used by Benny Parks to share Christ with me in 1979.

One funny, quirky thing I did with Rocky Colburn was we put some of those in bottles and threw them in the ocean and prayed maybe someone might read the message in the bottle... 

About 10 years into blog writing, I happened to notice that I was getting page views overseas. What I didn't know was whether these were just 'bots' or real interactions... was it legitimate? was is nefarious?

I will never know- but I did some research in how google does the analytics and tried to bot filter as much as possible.

According to my questions, here is what it said:

On average, after filtering, you could reasonably expect 70-85% of your blog’s interactions to be from real, engaged users, depending on the filtering methods applied.

So even conservatively, it is possible that real people are at least reading the content.

Over the 20 years, here are the numbers:


Also, many of you know that I am attaching music to these same posts and here is the last 30 days of that experiment:







and it goes down from there- and to be honest, I don't know....

But it is exciting to at least consider - don't you think?

As of today here are my latest total views:

Here is a song on that list:


Maybe that bottle got opened up and made a difference.... only God knows!










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