Resilience & Church in a Time of Pandemia...

​Kingdoms rise and fall. Wars and pandemics come and go. God ordained it to be this way. We need not doubt or succumb to fear. He anticipated every contingency. There is nothing new under the sun. We best view our current situation as "more of the same…” or "it's what was expected.”

The Great Commission applies until the end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20) This is what guarantees our resiliency. The essence of true Christianity and spiritual community will adapt, survive, and prosper. History has born witness to this; Jesus himself promised this.

We admire people like ADONIRAM JUDSON, one of our first American foreign missionaries. They built their first zayat in Burma in 1819. Along the way, they had to lose shoes, chairs, style of preaching and pulpit. But it was through a zayat that their first real convert appeared.

This is our “such a time as this.” We may not find a Burmese zayat as useful as social media and video conferencing. But we are adapting. Unknowns about the future keep us on our toes and ready to roll with the punches. We should be prepared to adapt even beyond what we have yet considered.

Church can be stretched and shaped many different ways… and still be church. It will carry on without shedding the doctrinal and functional essence Jesus endowed it with.

No, we don’t get excited about dying in a pandemic. But we can be excited about what the Lord intends to do through his churches.

God bless us all...!

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