Sociologists used to believe humans had deeply ingrained impulses and behaviors that could not be rewired. However, as our world has drastically changed over the last 100 years, they have realized that our brains can override our natural wiring with enough positive and negative reinforcement. The modern world constantly sends our bodies misguiding signals. Artificial lights tell our brains to stay awake. Flavor-enhanced food tells our brains to eat more. Videogames distract the brain from the problems in our lives and in the world that we must struggle with. Entertainment deadens our emotional connection to the people and world around us. Sex-saturated, conceited, and covetous culture has numbed out the urge to settle down and get married. Birth control methods have taken away the responsibilities and consequences of living a life outside of God’s design. Phones and the internet have made it so we can always maintain contact with people, which causes us not to value the habit of maintaining connections. Modern transportation has made everything in our lives replaceable: houses, churches, friends, jobs, spouses, and cities can all be left in the rearview mirror. Our highly populated and transitory world has almost evaporated the necessity of reputation.

A lot of the issues we see in culture today, anxiety, depression, addiction, and apathy, are symptoms of isolation. Isolation from genuine connections. Instead of addressing the issue, we have learned habits that numb and medicate the signals our minds and bodies are telling us.

Many people are living in their purpose and thriving today. But, for those who have wandered off the beaten path, Faith Connects wants to provide the game plan and encouragement to begin the journey away from the chains and weights that hold them down and toward truth and fellowship with God and others that is so intimate it pierces the soul and heals the heart.