Loving our neighbors will soon mean breaking out of our tech-bubbles. With apps like Facebook and Twitter the illusion of being connected to living breathing people is so strong. Technology can make us feel connected, but we're actually more alone and self-centered than any other time period. Don't get me wrong, I love technology, especially smartphones and my cool ipad air, but I can't help but wonder if all of this technology is being used to reach a lost generation.
What is the answer? Well, I don't have it all, but I think I'm on the right track. I'm old enough to have lived in an analog age before everything went digital. Digital is fast, accurate, and efficient and I can't ever see us going back to analog in terms of technology. I thinks that's where we went wrong. Things being fast, useful, accurate, and efficient transferred over to our relationships. We want to listen in a hurry, grow in a hurry, have breakthroughs in a hurry. But when I look at Jesus he was never in a hurry. He understood that relationships take time to build. He didn't just move on to the next person, but really invested in a few deep and meaningful relationships, the 12 disciples.
Maybe we can have that too? Maybe we can move back to a time of analog relationships where we actually meet a few key people in our lives on a regular basis and really share how we are doing, pray for each other, and grow in faith together. Maybe you'll start to not feel so isolated or having to be involved in the life of all 800 friends on your Facebook...just maybe you'll be satisfied and fulfilled in a few really deep relationships, but also reach out to those who don't know Jesus. Just maybe. I think you'll be surprised.
What is the answer? Well, I don't have it all, but I think I'm on the right track. I'm old enough to have lived in an analog age before everything went digital. Digital is fast, accurate, and efficient and I can't ever see us going back to analog in terms of technology. I thinks that's where we went wrong. Things being fast, useful, accurate, and efficient transferred over to our relationships. We want to listen in a hurry, grow in a hurry, have breakthroughs in a hurry. But when I look at Jesus he was never in a hurry. He understood that relationships take time to build. He didn't just move on to the next person, but really invested in a few deep and meaningful relationships, the 12 disciples.
Maybe we can have that too? Maybe we can move back to a time of analog relationships where we actually meet a few key people in our lives on a regular basis and really share how we are doing, pray for each other, and grow in faith together. Maybe you'll start to not feel so isolated or having to be involved in the life of all 800 friends on your Facebook...just maybe you'll be satisfied and fulfilled in a few really deep relationships, but also reach out to those who don't know Jesus. Just maybe. I think you'll be surprised.