BOA #193 - Move from Atomizing to Connecting!
from The Building One Another Podcast Hosted by Stan Ott & Lee Zehmer
Columnist Jess McKinley writes that America is atomizing, that we are not scattering into two different tribes but rather into countless little groups and further into simple aloneness. It's common today for a single person to spend most of their free time with one or two other singes, a married couple with just one or two others. Our circles are smaller than they've been in a long time? The places we used to congregate for conversations are diminishing. Why? Many reasons of course – social media makes us "alone with others," the moves toward less socialization the pandemic inspired, the many voices today pressing for more division among us, wanting, as one pastor put it, to be right more than they want to be reconciled. So, what do we do? As followers of Jesus we observe Jesus constantly pulled people in and sent people outto engage and connect more people. Yes, being alone has its place, and Jesus often withdrew for prayer and renewal, but engagement, connecting people showers God's love on them.
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