Degrees of Connection

In October, Facebook announced that the long standing idea of six degrees of separation between any two people was not true of Facebook's 800 million users.  Instead of six degrees, in the Facebook family it is closer to 4.  Within the same country, the degrees of separation between any two users is nearly down to 3.

How closely connected are we?  How close are we in the kingdom of God?  In the body of Christ?

Last night, I went to the family visitation of another pastor who had passed away, J. A. Munson.  He grew up in the same rural community that I did.  My father was influential in his coming to Christ as he worked as J. A.'s Sunday School teacher years ago.  J. A. went on to pastor through out Texas and in churches in several states.  Never in very big churches and often going from a larger church to a smaller church to help build it up.

One of the people that J. A. was influential in bringing to Christ years ago was Percy Jeane.  Percy now teaches Sunday School at Northside.  Percy and I talked about that connection again last night at the visitation. 

Six degrees of separation?  Four degrees through Facebook?  No, we are "all one in Christ."  We are more closely connected than we know or can see now.  Someday we will clearly see.  It  will be a wonderful day of discovery of our earthly connectedness in Christ that we only got glimpses of here.

For the journey...

Tim