The 70 Influencers

When Jesus was looking to spread the word about the kingdom of God, he didn’t post an ad. He sent out 70 influencers, and he’s still doing it today!

Have you ever counted the number of advertisements you see or hear in an average day?

Think about it — from the time you arise in the morning to when you say your prayers at night, you have been exposed to literally thousands of marketing voices.

You read online news accounts, you might have read a newspaper, you logged on to social media, you checked your email, you drove past billboards (some of them were electronic, giving you more than a single message), you listened to the radio in your car, you surfed a number of websites, you watched TV and you streamed movies or shows on Netflix or Hulu.

Even if you just do a web search for, say, a new pair of shoes, you’re probably going to see ads for shoes every time you open your browser for the next few weeks or until you search for something else.

In the 1970s, the average American was exposed to about 500 ads a day via print, television and radio. In the second decade of the 21st century, that number has soared to...