Perspectives on COVID 19
 

From Bishop CM Wright:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRTgqtuAmc

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

From Pastor Raymond Woodward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJFdaPoUiU

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

if you are home in the evenings, eRevival:

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...1&d=1584792612

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

God is showing us that the buildings and programs we have idolized while while going through the motions of religious life by checking the boxes does not satisfy His requirement that all saints walk in the Spirit, being led of the Spirit, in true relationship and submission in all aspects of our lives.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Showing WHO?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Well said! :highfive

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Anyone who worships God when they show up at the church building but lives a self centered life the rest of the week.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

From wikipedia:

According to the New Testament, the earliest Christians did not build church buildings. Instead, they gathered in homes (Acts 17:5, 20:20, 1 Corinthians 16:19) or in Jewish worship places like the Second Temple or synagogues (Acts 2:46, 19:8). The earliest archeologically identified Christian church is a house church (domus ecclesiae), the Dura-Europos church, founded between 233 and 256.[4] In the second half of the 3rd century AD, the first purpose-built halls for Christian worship (aula ecclesiae) began to be constructed. Although many of these were destroyed early in the next century during the Diocletianic Persecution, even larger and more elaborate church buildings began to appear during the reign of the Emperor Constantine the Great

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

They did not build church buildings because it was illegal.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

1st century church was a mega church, they could not fit in a buiding

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

My perspective this evening.

Paul was under house arrest when he wrote Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon. We don’t know what God causes, but we know He doesn’t waste the time. :thumbsup

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Always on point... :)

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Why didn't the other disciples get together and go and physically fight to get Paul out from his imprisonment?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

:thumbsup
He sure doesn't!

Maybe they had learned after Peter's difficult lesson when he cut off the soldier's ear, that perhaps it was better to let the Lord fight the battle, then try their hand at it....

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

:yourock

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Lessons learned:

**the Church will function with or without a building.

**there is another option for dealing with this pandemic:
Let those who statistically have mild effects from covid19 to go back to work and build up "herd immunity" so the economy can function and let those who are higher risk continue to distance themselves for another month or so until it runs it course.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

What does that have to do with her post?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Better yet, the true church will function with or without us.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Is this a real question?

Paul appealed to Caesar. He was "under house arrest" in a rented house waiting for his court appearance before the Emperor. He was there voluntarily and intentionally. How do you not know this?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Nothing, I just thought of it as I read it.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Probably your first thought should have been that you immediately went negative. It is a huge problem in the church today, IMO. “...However, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth”?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

On the contrary dear sister/brother. I’m not going negative with my thoughts, I was referring to Paul was in the will of God while awaiting to appeal to Caesar and then become a martyr. They didn’t storm the house he was in because they (disciples/followers) knew it was the will of God. Paul told them in his letters, Paul wasnt beat down, he wasn’t discouraged or he wasnt as I read in one writing depressed concerning the fact that his time was limited. All these threads on Coronavirus or whatever there calling it now, God is in control and the church should not worry. It doesn’t matter if the virus is produced in a lab in china or here, you shouldnt trust in men the church trusts in God. We should not fear or be afraid, because God is in control.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Question for you?

When Jesus returns, is he still considered the “son of man” or is he God?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

He has awesome teaching on Prayer and the levels of tongues.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Levels of tongues?

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

I'm curious as well.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Both

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

He has a podcast of all his teachings. His older teachings on tongues is very good!

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

I don't believe God caused CV19 or that it is a judgement on the world.

God does use our trials and struggles to perfect us and bring us closer to Him.

I have listened to several Pastors during this time of isolation and there is a common message. In the life of a child of God, there are no sacred spaces, no separation between the secular and holy.
Every aspect of our lives must be holy. We are the Church, we need to be able to maintain a walk with God, pray and fast and hear from God whether or not we are able to meet in a building.
This is a time when people are having to face who they really are. We can't be one way when we enter a building 3 times a week and then someone else on at home, on the job, or in the store.

We are not to forsake the assembling of ourselves, and are instructed to live our lives in community with each other. We are instructed to love each other with a pure heart fervently.
This is up close and personal. Anyone who does not long to be reunited in fellowship with their Church family, is not right with God.

I believe we will come through this stronger than we were before because there are strong lessons to be learned if we will but learn them.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

What gets me about this virus, is how the media seems to only report on the negative points about this virus not on the positive. Like how many have contracted the virus, but not how little amount of deaths in comparison to other past pandemics.

I was reading accouple of news stories today, and one was a comparison of those that have contracted the virus, and then in Quotations was the amount of deaths. As if they did not want to emphasis the amount of deaths was so little in comparison, and the fact that the confirmand cases were so small in the first place.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Are the newspapers reporting those who have RECOVERED???

No???

Wait!

I can hear it!!!

Hulk Hogan’s theme song!

We are saved!!!

Mr Trump, hold me!!! :tissue

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

No. I have talk radio on all day and I check the news every morning. All I see and hear are how many contracted the virus, and how many died. So I started to do a little research and found that the numbers don't even come close to the numbers in past years. Even the flu this year far out number those that have died from corona virus.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

I believe the issue is that we have no herd immunity; therefore public services, emergency services, and health care services could be overwhelmed.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

This is the first time I hear about that. Do you have any reference to it I can look at?

Synagogues were legal in the Roma empire. You can see it in Acts.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Pretty sure AZ is headed for Shelter in Place orders. The news announced AZ had it's largest 24hr increase in confirmed cases and deaths. (No word on those who have beaten the virus, of course)

The DHS head here says AZ won't likely peak until April with hospitalizations peaking in MAY!

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Herd immunity? They might as well prescribe leeches and wave chickens around.

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

:happydance :heeheehee :happydance

:happydance :yourock :happydance

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

A Jewel found that says it succinctly.😇👍

Re: Perspectives on COVID 19
 

Synagogues may have been legal but Synagogues wer one of a few things that the Jews brought back from Babylon.