I love to tell stories. I get paid to speak. I love communicating. I thoroughly enjoy telling people all the things that happen to me that are awesome, and I find some solace complaining about the things that aren’t. As human beings, we love to tell each other the events of our lives, we love to share our feelings, we love to cast our dreams. We want people to know when we are really happy, and when we’re really sad.
In fact, Romans 12:15 tells us to “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” I think this is the first example of our modern “blog culture.” As I write this, I wonder who cares about my stupid stories or my spiritual experiences. And then I look at the blogs around me and I see people more often than not doing one of two things, rejoicing or weeping. The blog gives us an opportunity to rejoice over hundreds of miles with people we don’t even know who are rejoicing. It also gives us the chance to weep for the same.
As we spend time together through technology, our experience can be an exercise in narcissism, or it can be an opportunity like never before to be a community of believers that is not limited by space. In a virtual community we have the chance to connect with old friends and make new ones without stepping out from behind our desks. I believe that our new technology can give us something that the world has never experienced before, a universal church that can rejoice and weep over big things and small things that happen to its members halfway across the world.
Will you rejoice with me over this?
In fact, Romans 12:15 tells us to “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” I think this is the first example of our modern “blog culture.” As I write this, I wonder who cares about my stupid stories or my spiritual experiences. And then I look at the blogs around me and I see people more often than not doing one of two things, rejoicing or weeping. The blog gives us an opportunity to rejoice over hundreds of miles with people we don’t even know who are rejoicing. It also gives us the chance to weep for the same.
As we spend time together through technology, our experience can be an exercise in narcissism, or it can be an opportunity like never before to be a community of believers that is not limited by space. In a virtual community we have the chance to connect with old friends and make new ones without stepping out from behind our desks. I believe that our new technology can give us something that the world has never experienced before, a universal church that can rejoice and weep over big things and small things that happen to its members halfway across the world.
Will you rejoice with me over this?
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