Connections

There is an odd experience that comes from growing up in the city and moving to a small town.  It is the realization that there is this connectedness that permeated the town.  Everyone is connected to each other in several different ways.  The people that you work with are also neighbors and you go to the same church and you run into them some place.  Oh, and that other person that you know is their brother.  As a transplant, I found myself wishing that I had some type of chart that would show how everyone was connected.  I have lived in this same small town for over 20 years, and I still find myself surprised by relations that I never know existed.

There used to be a tv show called "Connections".  It wasn't about people, but about technology.  It would show how one technological advancement logically led to the next until there was something completely unexpected.  In one episode, they began with the invention of the plow.  This led to improvements in pottery to store the grain, and writing to mark the stored grain and surveying and geometry to mark out plots of land and tools to work the soil and dig canals and reinforce canals and then all of a sudden......pyramids.  Which use all of the skills needed for agriculture in a different way.  Much like relationships in a small town, just because relationships aren't obvious, doesn't mean that they aren't there.

Similar to these other types of connections, Christians first of all share a connection to each other.  There is a certain fellowship of believers.  Even among Christians with different traditions.  and denominations, there is still a recognition that we are all in this together.

There is also a connection that Christians have to the past.  When we read the Bible, we hear the stories of thousands of years of the history of God's people.  And it doesn't seem to matter that my ancestors do not come from Israel, as Christians we automatically seem to connect that history to ourselves.

But there is one more very unique connection that Christians make.  

Watch this clip from Pastor Lowell.

As Christians we make a peculiar connection to God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  This peculiar connection sets us apart from everyone else in a very peculiar way.