Our last 'Engage' night on Thursday was based around The Social Network, a film following the creation of Facebook and its consequences. The film follows Mark Zuckerberg through two court cases based around the creation of the worldwide social network, flashing back to the events that led up to them. Yet the film's creators appear to be using the film to comment on how something designed to connect us has resulted in a world of disconnected people hooked in to the internet. The biggest irony of the film is that Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as a disconnected man connecting people together.
Russel's big question for the night was 'What makes us need relationships?' leading to the creation of social network sites like Facebook. His point was that we were created by a triune God for relationship with Him and others. In fact, God so longs to have a relationship with us that He willing sacrificed Himself for us so that we might reconnect with Him. For Jesus was part of our triune God, the Son, meaning that God split part of Himself off breaking a relationship to connect with us. So in an age when our main way of connecting with each other is via a computer screen, knowing a God who longs to know us personally is something incredible. In a disconnected world God has made the ultimate sacrifice in order to reconnect with each other individually, face to face rather than via an internet cable.
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