Don’t Talk About Yourself Like You’re a Machine

“It’s vital to connect.”“We need churches to foster connection.”“It’s all who you know. All about connections.”We hear statements like these all the time. You understand what they’re getting at—the truth they intend to convey. But if you were talking with someone from a hundred years ago, they’d look at you funny and ask you to elaborate. Go back another hundred years, and they wouldn’t understand you at all. No one back then used the word “connect” in reference to individual personal relationsh