Businesses, yoga studios, athletic trainers, physical therapist, schools, churches and organizations have flooded the web with Zoom meetings and activities. Zoom, an online video conferencing tool has been overwhelmed by usage over the last 90 days. Like any other popular web program, hackers have had fun with the security holes in Zoom.
Zoom has developed new patches and fixes to stay ahead of the hackers. I was scheduled to take part in a Zoom meeting led by a pastor in Renton and before I joined the meeting someone had joined the meeting and flashed pornography on the screen. Such is the world of the internet.
One safeguard now in place is that the moderator of the Zoom meeting must allow a person to enter the meeting and join the conversation. In the middle of the night last week I started thinking about the parallels in real world relationships and conversations.
Each of us respond as the moderator of meetings and conversations. As the moderator we either allow a person to enter meetings and conversations or we prohibit them. Our response signals to the other person whether they are welcome or not. Sometimes it is a look, a phrase, a vibe that we give off that signals to the other that it is OK to enter or not OK.
Jesus “allowed” people into his circle, conversations, meals, and life whom others had rejected and prohibited from relationship.
Luke recalled one of those moments in his account of Jesus’ life. “Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’”
Jesus let people into his "Zoom Meetings" that others forbade. He welcomed undesirables to eat with him at "Zoom Dinners". And, that is the hospitality that Jesus wants to reproduce in our lives.
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