We are all connected
“He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation.” (Acts 17:26 NASB)
In the above passage we learn that God made us all from one man to live on the face of the earth. He determined all our appointed times (when we were to be born) and all our boundaries (where we were to live). We are all connected!
Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in a 1990 play written by John Guare. A 2007 study by Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz examined a data set of instant messages composed of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. They found the average path length among Microsoft Messenger users to be 6. It has been suggested by some commentators that interlocking networks of computer mediated lateral communication could diffuse single messages to all interested users worldwide as per the 6 degrees of separation principle via Information Routing Groups, which are networks specifically designed to exploit this principle and lateral diffusion. However, some have argued that the existence of isolated groups of humans, for example the Korubo and other native Brazilian populations, would tend to invalidate the strictest interpretation of the hypothesis. Yet, the point is still true that most of the world is just a few steps connection from each other. Think of what this means! You are only a few connections away from just about anybody in the world!
Pray about your connections
Do you pray for God to connect you to the right people? You should! As Christians, we are definitely connected to the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit!
“So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” (Rom. 12:5)