It's the network

Last night I saw the latest Verizon wireless commercial during the Monday night football game. The commercial shows two men standing outside a stadium talking about something. I don't recall what the content of the conversation was, but I do remember the end of their conversation.

"That's your network?" The Verizon guy looks at the other guy. The other guy has a tiny crowd of maybe five ro six people behind him to represent his support network for his wireless company.

"That's your network?!" the other guy says to the Verizon guy. Behind the Verizon guy stands a huge crowd of people. "Yep," he says.

It got me thinking. How big is my network of friends? When I turn around, who is behind me? Am I standing alone? Who do I stand behind? Who am I supporting?

Verizon's underlying message in the commercial is, "the bigger your network, the more support you'll have, you'll have greater communication, and you will be much more successful in life."

What if the church was like this? What if instead of being a "spiritual gas station" as another pastor put it, we were a community where we network with each other. We are connected by virtue of our service provider, Jesus. What if we all stand behind one another instead of walking away searching for a better spiritual high?