Internet Preacher
 

Well, my Pastor has to head out of town for work this week so he asked me to teach Bible Study this week. We have restrictions about services in our Province so it will be online.
My family knows I hate seeing myself on video or hearing myself and when they show it on the monitor at home I react.
I usually end up throwing Tomatoes at the screen and my wife goes ballistic and lectures on wasting Gods money, she doesn't know I bought them, starving people I'm Africa and around the world. Who is going to clean up the mess, blah, blah, blah.🙄
Who else is still having in person services?🤔

Re: Internet Preacher
 

We’re having services in person.

Your Pastor is preaching at some other church?

Re: Internet Preacher
 

No, he has his own business, and he has to go about 5 or 6 hundred miles away to complete a job that didn't get finished because of the lockdown.

Re: Internet Preacher
 

We never stop having in person services.

Re: Internet Preacher
 

Good on you! You live in a State that is not run by a Commie. There are lawsuits going on by different Churches in Alberta and BC stating it is unconstitutional. Big fines if you don't abide by the orders.

Re: Internet Preacher
 

Don't you belong to a church that predates the Canadian government and which has a standard policy of "We must obey God rather than men" if there is any conflict between what men decree and what God has decreed?

Re: Internet Preacher
 

Exodus 1:15-17

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Daniel 6:12-13

Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

Re: Internet Preacher
 

We also have a City that will not tell the difference between holding service for holding services sake, and holding services against a health order."Church is opened in the future" hey come out to our services.
Nope you guys were the ones trying to kill people.

Re: Internet Preacher
 

What? Sounds like you are saying the church should obey God unless it interferes with "church growth"?

What exactly is the "bottom line" here, I wonder?

Re: Internet Preacher
 

No, in the States it is much more sacrosanct enshrined in your Constitution of Religious freedom. We were governed by the British North America Act that was based in England.
I'm 1982 we repatriated it and created the Canadian Constitution with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There is a clause that these "Rights' can't be abridged unless what is considered reasonable and necessary. We are not a Republic like you guys.

Everyone in Canada is free to practise any religion or no religion at all. We are also free to express religious beliefs through prayer or by wearing religious clothing for example. However, the Charter also ensures that others also have the right to express their religious beliefs in public.

We’re free to think our own thoughts, speak our minds, listen to views of others and express our opinions in creative ways. We’re also free to meet with anyone we wish and participate in peaceful demonstrations. This includes the right to protest against a government action or institution.

However, these freedoms are not unlimited. There may be limits on how you express your religious beliefs if your way of doing so would infringe on the rights of others or undermine complex public programs and policies.

Now there are some Churches in Alberta and BC with deeper pockets than us that are challenging these lockdowns in Court using the Charter.