No wifi required
Hello,
This week, people across more than 70 countries woke up to a sudden silence. A massive global outage across Microsoft 365 brought Outlook, Teams, and cloud services to a grinding halt. Hospitals, schools, police forces, and businesses suddenly found themselves unable to send an email, access shared files, or hold virtual meetings.
We spend so much of our daily lives working “in the cloud,” trusting invisible servers and digital networks to keep our communities connected. Yet, as engineers worked through the night to untangle server overloads and configuration glitches, the disruption revealed a quiet truth: our human systems of connection are remarkably fragile. When a single digital thread snaps, our modern routines quickly unravel.
As they have tried to deal with this outage, institutions across the UK, from NHS clinics to local schools, issued a simple, telling instruction to the public: “Please phone or speak to us in person; do not email”. Stripped of our screens, people had to rediscover the irreplaceable value of actual presence, a human voice, and seeing each other face-to-face.
The heart of Christian faith is the truth that God is not a distant, solitary administrator running the universe from afar, nor a fragile system prone to crashing. From all eternity, God exists as a vibrant, unbreakable communion of love – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this divine fellowship, communication is never disrupted, connection is never lost, and no “elevated load” of human need can ever overwhelm the grace of God. It is not fibre-optic cables or cloud servers, but the living Christ in whom “all things hold together.” (Colossians 1:17)
Let’s seize this opportunity to step away from the screen, make time for a face-to-face conversation, and share the unbreakable grace and love of Jesus Christ – no Wi-Fi required.
Warm regards,
Gavin.
About the Writer:
Gavin Henderson is the National Ministry Leader for GCI in the UK and Ireland.