At Least Two...

Leave it to social media to be reminded that the world is small.
Leave it to social media to be reminded that "community" exists, in the presence of just two people, let alone beyond.
Leave it to social media to be reminded that people can call out what they perceive to be true, but be wrong.
And don't be surprised that perhaps those same people weren't as wrong as perhaps what you thought they were.

Social media is reminder that the innocent words and communiques can be misconstrued, misinterpreted and misunderstood. It's a reminder that the non-judgement do make judgements. Everyone makes assessments and evaluations. And we have lenses and filters which cause us to see things differently. Sometime to extreme differences. Other times to fine-line nuances.

Nevertheless, leave it to social media to be reminded that as quickly as we can recognize the worst in people; we can just as easily notice the best. And the good. And the humanity.

Community will always require truth. It will always require compassion.
It will always require as much self-awareness as it will awareness of those around us.

We are in the world, but not of the world. But our identity is in Christ. Which makes us people who can change the world, as Jesus did. Does social media need help? I think that goes without saying. But only, because we know the truth of reality. Society needs help.

Pray this #communitySaturday, that we would be people who would indeed change the world, for Christ. Pray that we would be people of the truth and of compassion; genuine in spirit and kind in heart. May we ever be conscience that people are hurting; living damaged lives and viewing life with skewed perceptions and scratched lenses. Pray God would help us as we communicate our experiences with His truth and a heart to help.

For no man is an island.
Neither in social media,
Nor on this side of eternity.
For the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC