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We dial up, hook up, and log on, but we don’t really connect. We seek other ways to fill the hollow feeling inside. We turn to TV, alcohol, sports, hobbies, drugs. We push our 50 hour work week to 60-65 hours; anything to numb the pain of loneliness. But it doesn’t work, does it? The results prove to be temporary and shallow. Like a dark shadow, loneliness follows us.
America is a wired community, connected electronically and economically but not personally and spiritually.
--Dr. Edward M Hallowell (Harvard)
There is nothing more unchristian than a solitary Christian.
--John Wesley
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But the Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city.
--Acts 17:5a
Misses others
Encourages others
Is concerned about
the spirituality of others
The shepherd who tends his flock year
after year, feeding them a steady diet of
God’s truth, finds over time he has
nurtured a healthy band of maturing
believers, people who are willing to step
out in faith and trust God to dream great
dreams.
In the fulfilled flock,
friendships flourish,
a caring community is encouraged,
laughter abounds,
emotional wounds are treated,
and peace prevails.
-- Chuck Swindoll
Misses others
Encourages others
Is concerned about
the spirituality of others
Prays for others