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Being Overly Connected to People (TMF:2894)

Thursday, June 11, 2026
Peace to Live By: Being Overly Connected to People (TMF:2894) - Daniel Litton
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       Verse 8: “I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts” (ESV). We have to remember that back in those days, some 2,000 years ago, that the spreading of information was surely limited. We are so used to having any information we want (well, almost) at our fingertips, easily assessable through the Internet via social media. We can know so much nowadays, and likely too much. For often it seems that we know of circumstances and events that we shouldn’t know, that we follow persons we probably shouldn’t follow because they are no longer part of our lives. If our attention is spread out too far and wide, we find that our relationships might be miles wide but only an inch deep. God never intended for us to keep contact with so many individuals, to be so interconnected with seemingly everybody. Back in the time of Paul, Tychicus had to physically travel to Colossae to talk with the church, to physically tell them how Paul and his companions were doing.