Okay, I sat down with a couple of friends this past week to talk about staying connected with people when everyone is so busy. Yep, I'd seen myspace, facebook, plaxo, and other internet tools, but really never spent any time with them. After our conversation, I went back to my office and opened my first FB account.
Within minutes, I'd found several people I'd been trying to find for years and we began to send messages back and forth. Then requests for 'friends' began to come in. Soon, my Blackberry was vibrating every couple of minutes with new requests and messages. But why?
Why did I care that someone was 'on their way to the grocery store' or 'just wanting to change their status?' Why did I write that I was 'going on a date with my wife?' But it was good to feel connected, to know that someone was reading about my life and I was intersted in theirs.
So I'm going to keep updating my status every once in awhile and look in on how others are doing. I'll stay connected through emails with some of those I miss talking with. More importantly, I'm going to remember what 'church' is really about. It's not the message, the singing, or even about Sunday morning. It's walking through life together, sharing and encouraging one another, and growing as Christ followers. Through FB we can be 'church' when not together as 'church.'
I invite you to join me on this journey.
2 comments:
Facebook is a great ministry tool! Good to see you using it Brian.
The internet has taken community to a whole new level. Love it!
I couldn't agree with you more, Brian. As Christians, often we are obsessed with our own personal encounter with the faith, 'how close am I to God?' etc. Unless we exercise community, become something useful and visibly beneficial to our world--we appear as a bunch of obsessed self-helpers. Facebook is a tiny way to expand that community--see how we have grown, who we have become. Finding out how Christians have evolved is a sure sign of what God has been doing. Often it's very surprising--but always enlightening.
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