Face Book or Face-to-Face?
As we enter a new year, I find myself sitting in front of a computer shooting emails to friends near and far. I send notes concerning schedules and meetings to officers and ministry team leaders. Worship services and annual reports are being perfected. With over half of all Americans now using emails and Face book, it has become easy for us all to stay in touch. Next to the telephone, the computer has become a wonderful way to stay in touch with people we might otherwise not see or hear from.
Yet I wonder what the effect of all these technological advancements have had on our relationship with God? The telephone and postal service and emails can never replace our gathering together to worship God. All the technologies in the world can’t help us experience what it means to be face-to-face members of the living and vibrant body of Christ.
Simply put,
we cannot “break bread together”
over the internet…..
Truly, the best way for us to nurture our relationship with God is through Sunday worship and face-to-face relationships. Worship remains the time for us to gather together, each week, as a church family. Worship is truly the best way we have to be fed and nurtured in Christ’s spirit.
So as we begin another year, let’s not get trapped into thinking we can nurture a relationship with God through a text-message or social networking on Face book. These are just tools. The best and true way to hear God’s Word is found in the context of community – through worship and responding, together, to God’s call to love.
Have a happy new year!
Rev. Tom Cundiff
