Amen, this is exactly how I feel about the virus we have been dealing with. I am convinced it was God who let this happen so that we could take a good look at ourselves and discern whether or not we have been trusting Christ.
I noticed all our pleasure venus were shut down, the churches were closed showing us that we were placing our trust in those buildings and paid pastors. I wonder how many people worshiped at home while the doors of buildings were closed to them?
I never remember a time when our family worshiped or read the Bible at home even though they went to a building called a church, without any contact with other churchgoers during the week.
This pandemic was used of God to show us how distracted by everything we have been and that we do not know we can worship at home without a building and without a paid hireling to lead us.
Modern Christianity has been depending on buildings and people instead of Christ for their spirituality fix for generations now. Our worship in these buildings has become ritual, leaving people the inability to worship if they are not in those buildings with that pulpit person to teach them.
I wonder how many people did not worship at home when the buildings closed? I wonder how many did not read their Bibles while the buildings were shut down?
From the angry responses to it as well as the fear I suggest that most Christians were floundering without the ability to read or worship without that building or that hireling to do it for them.
Just some sobering thoughts about the condition of the modern church that places their trust in a building and a man and not in Christ.
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The economic depression of 1929 brought misery to millions of people, but let us not forget it brought blessings. One is the knowledge there is something infinitely worse than being forced to work, it is being forced not to work."
- Napoleon Hill 1938
"Outwitting the devil"
Hill believed that there was a blessing to those wounded by the resultant crisis; they were forced to look within and draw upon faith and to create something new. Our prayer should be that our churches, who are struggling thru a "depression" of faith, will, as a people, rise again to embrace that blessing and follow the Holy Spirit to something new.
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