Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2017
is to visit and meet people in every state in the U.S. A recent trip to Texas
allowed Zuckerberg to better understand the work of some ministers in Waco.
Zuckerberg commented
on the pastors’ intentions to help their congregations “find deeper meaning in
a changing world.” While he met with a diverse group of people in Texas, he
said the experience helped him “understand just how important community is” and
that “we’re all just looking for something we can trust.”
Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook and is
increasingly becoming more involved in humanitarian efforts. In August,
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, met Pope Francis and told him “how much we
admire his message of mercy and tenderness.” The couple also expressed their
admiration for how the Pope has found ways to “communicate with people of every
faith around the world.” And while Zuckerberg, who was raised in a Jewish home,
does not claim to adhere to any one religion, he stated on his Facebook page
around Christmas that he is not an atheist, and believes “religion is very
important.”
Speaking about his personal
challenge to visit every state this year, Zuckerberg says he wants
to “talk to more people about how they’re living, working and thinking about
the future.” These are excellent questions to pose to Christians as we are
constantly thinking of how we are living, how we are working toward securing
more people into God’s Kingdom, and what that Kingdom is going to look like
when it comes to fruition.
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