ZOGO - Stop typing. Start talking. Online dating with your mobile phone.

ZOGO is another technology involved in using your cell phone for dating. Others of you are familiar with using Bluetooth technology for scanning or 'toothing' an area to meet up with others. I really don't know much about it other than I saw Delko get lucky on CSI: Miami. I wonder how these communication technologies could be used for missional purposes — for evangelism. Sure plenty of people are using this stuff attempting to hook up and get lucky like Delko, but if the truth be known, they are looking for so much more, whether they admit it or not. Their quest is not just physical gratification (although that quest can't be underestimated :) but intimacy. We want to know and be known. What if the person 'toothing' them didn't just want to treat them like a sex doll but treated them as a person of worth and value? What if the person on the other end provided them something better than a quickie in the parking lot or men's room — something like eternal life and freedom from bondage through Jesus Christ our Lord? What if we started toothing in church or youth group or at an evangelistic crusade? I suppose we could play pranks and pretend God is toothing them, calling them to the altar for prayer that day. But maybe someone could respond to an invitation to receive Christ? Or maybe we could have a prayer team that tooths the crowd inviting people to hook up for prayer — hook up might not be the best terminology there, but you get the idea. I'm just wondering out loud today, which is always dangerous with a brain like mine. Compared to my dad I'm a technical genius with an IQ of 180. Then I read about 'toothing' and ZOGO and I realize I just know how to turn the phone on and off and answer calls, and my IQ is still only about 80. Bluetooth is something I get when I get a Bomb-Pop from the ice cream truck guy in my parents' neighborhood.