His Testimony:
Today Yulian Marianov have around 3000 visits on his blogs daily. There are two articles which are popular in his blogs, one is about "Jesus and Moon: Comparison"; the another article is, "Are We a Gay-Nation", these articles arouse a great discussion. That's like having articles posted in one of the main national newspapers. The articles were in front of 50 000 readers. But some ask, "Can new members be raised through Internet Witnessing?" The answer is "Yes!"
Testimony of His Spiritual Daughter:
Few months ago she accidently found Yulian Marianov's article about True Love on the Internet. She got touched and read more. Finally she got inspired and wrote Yulian the following email:
"I want to join and support the Family Federation. I feel ashamed that previously I didn't know how great things Rev. Moon is doing."
Yulian started sending her some materials and guiding her to read our books on Internet. She writes questions & comments to Yulian and he would answer them. She learned to pray, she learned about God, she learned about TF's vision. Yulian visited her only once. Recently she had a dream, how True Father is like a white rose and we the members are like the red roses around him. That was a dream of how the world is going to be restored around the Messiah.
Here are her own words:
"Dear Yulian, do you understand what you are giving me? To big degree what I've learned from you, transformed my concepts about God. Before reading the materials you were giving me and discussing through mail, I was thinking of God as one of law and punishments. I didn't know that he is a God of love, that he is our loving Father. I didn't know that we are causing him pain. Do you understand, you've turned my heart and my spirit 180 degrees."
The Power of Internet Witnessing:
Studies, statistics, reality and experience of others and also Yulian's experience, shows the Witnessing Power of the Internet. The words of True Father and In Jin Nim, on the need to use Internet to Witness says it best.
In 1998 True Father said:
"To build the Kingdom of God I need to use the Internet technology." But even before that, on the World CARP Convention in 1995, the main speech was about the Internet technology, and how God will use it. The truth is, as In Jin Nim said, that young people don't want to be lectured, but like to go on Internet and find out for themselves. In fact, whatever they hear or want to know, they will automatically go to Google and find out everything about it. There is one more interesting fact, if you didn't know, that people believe more when they read something, rather than when they hear it from someone.
The Role of St. Paul's Letters
To understand how important is to write articles explaining TP's to the World think of the role of st.Paul's letters. They had enormous effect on Christianity. Why? At UTS we studied that there were many other missionaries, better than him, but he was the one who wrote many letters from his prison.
Letters were used to witness long before Unification Church appeared. Yulian personally became Christian because of very heartistic letters with deep explanations from his spiritual parent. Now he has deep communications on the internet with a number of spiritual children. And their testimony is that our heartistic connection and depth of discussions helped them to understand God's heart.
HDH should reach to the people:
Giving a person Divine Principle or True Father's Biography is a powerful witnessing tool too. The biggest problem is the expense, time and the "follow up". Internet is a combination of giving the Word and continuous follow up through other materials, chat, emails, skype without spending money or the need to reach the readers one after another. But some ask where is the actual connection between the spiritual parent and spiritual child? Oh, it is strong and it naturally will leads to those who are prepared to actual physical meetings, workshops and physically joining the Church. The testimony of many of Yulian's Internet spiritual children testifies to that. They join substantially, not virtually!
