“Everyday they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:46

There something to be said about the way the early Church did things–meeting together in homes, breaking bread and praising God. The book of Acts is all about the “acts” God did through people “together” as a body of believers. It wasn’t about flying solo and doing God’s work alone. Even Paul, who at times, seemed to be a loner would often visit the churches he wrote to. When he was away or in prison he wrote how he longed to be with them in person. Even Jesus, (aka God) spent the majority of his time with his followers and disciples in fellowship.

I wonder if people today are still as intentional to gather together in fellowship?

My freshman year of college I got an email from a friend asking me to join a thing called Facebook. I had never heard of it. Once our college was signed up to have it (back when Facebook was only for college students) it spread like wild fire. I can remember it was a little weird to talk about publicly unlike people do now. I added friends to my facebook but still didn’t understand the concept of why it was cool, I just knew everyone was talking about it and uploading their best self-taken profile pictures. Obviously, 8 years later Facebook is now one the most used social media tools in history. It’s gotten to the point where it’s second nature for someone to say, “Hey, I saw on facebook…_______”  you fill in the blank. People refer to status updates as a way to start conversation without even thinking twice.

With all of the ways to connect to others through technology, do people still feel disconnected? I would say yes.

I believe there is a social disconnection in our society today because social media tools, like facebook and twitter only medicate the longing for fellowship but don’t actually replace it for the real thing. I think social media is great…I mean, come on, I’m using it right now! However, I know that it can become a stronghold in your life because if you are expecting it to make you happy just like anything else. I would encourage you to get out from behind your computer and connect with others in person. I know some of my best memories were shared with other people and not from a computer. This is not intended to make you feel bad about using facebook or twitter, it’s only to encourage you to have authentic fellowship in your life. After all, we were created to have fellowship with God and with others.

Blessings,

Nick