Hey, shout out to our YouTube community. Uh, I’d love to know where you’re watching from. Just tell us in the comments section. I’m watching from whatever part of the world uh that you’re in. Today, we’re going to do something different. I’ve been working with about a dozen young communicators in our church, and our team chose four of them to team teach the message today. So, I pray that it blesses you in a big way.
Well, growing up, uh, family dinner was a big deal at my house. Like I could still smell my mom’s chicken and rice and everything nice cooking in the oven. I could still see the chocolate pudding sitting on the counter taunting us. Because how many of you know you can’t have dessert unless you finish your dinner. Um, but what I loved about family dinner wasn’t the food.
It was what came after we ate. Because after eating, we would just stay around our dining room table talking for hours. We’d stay around our dining room table playing games like Candyland, which I couldn’t win for some reason. Um, and we would talk about the things that happened at school or the girl that I had a crush on at the time.
But what I loved about family dinner is those were the moments that mattered most. Well, recently I got to go home and visit my family. And what was interesting was this time was a little bit different because while I was home and we had family dinner night after we had eaten, I caught myself not around that small dining room table, but I was on the couch scrolling and I noticed glancing up over the edge of my phone everyone else doing the exact same thing. And I recognized that though we were together physically, we
weren’t actually connecting with one another. And I wonder for you if you’ve ever experienced something similar. Like I wonder for you if there were times you’ve missed the moments that matter the most. Maybe for you it’s when you went into a church and you were listening to the message and you took your phone out to take notes, which really we know means to check the score of your favorite team that was playing.
