After getting this blog underway, I last night read a challenge from Dan Kimball (author: They Like Jesus but not the Church - worth a read). He was in a classroom, and noticed most of the uni students were blogging or twittering rather than listening. Slightly disturbed, he then found that even in his church there were people on facebook rather than participating in worship!
All of these media have their place. And they serve us well. I've caught up with friends through facebook that I haven't seen in over a decade. I've also been able to have important pastoral conversations in chat spaces with people from our corps.
But none of these communication contraptions and programs replace relationship. None of them give us the same meaningful interaction that one-on-one face-to-face does.
While Jesus didn't have these means of communicating in his day - and I'm sure he would have used them sometime if he did - I can't help wonder about the fact that for the most part, healing came with his touch. He was present.
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