Those words may conjure up declarations from the circus when an animal gets loose or backstage of a production when the lead actor breaks his ankle. Perhaps you have the same association I do with the last track on Queen's 1991 album "Innuendo." Ok, I may be the only one with that last one.
Whatever your association with those words, they are the motto of the church of Jesus Christ today. With the world on social distancing and stay-at-home protocols and the Covid-19 virus sweeping our communities, so many things we take for granted are out of our grasp.
Whatever your association with those words, they are the motto of the church of Jesus Christ today. With the world on social distancing and stay-at-home protocols and the Covid-19 virus sweeping our communities, so many things we take for granted are out of our grasp.
- Reading a book while sipping a latte at the local coffee shop.
- Running to the hardware store for that one tool you don't have.
- Stopping in the aisle of the grocery store to visit with an acquaintance.
- Going to church.
All of these things and much more have been temporarily snatched from us by a virus 1/1000th the width of an eyelash. Many of the things we have lost in our social distancing we can live without. I mean who actually dies from lack of latte?
Many businesses that have been forced to close their dining rooms and shopping floors are offering curbside service. All sorts of businesses and organizations are finding ways to adapt to our new and hopefully temporary reality.
The show must go on!
The church is no different. We cannot take a break from providing spiritual nurture and community anymore than the grocery can stop selling food or the hospital stop delivering care to the sick.
This space is a space for chronicling the things we do as a church to continue being the church during this new diaspora. What lessons will we learn? What capacities will we uncover? What new ways will we find to build community, serve Christ, and love our neighbors?
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