Hello Church,
Baby steps.....
You have likely already seen the news about Texas and Mississippi. They have done away with covid protocols. It was a big step.... a giant step all at once. Leaders are getting criticized for it by many. Others applaud it. What about us?
Baby steps....
I am not the most patient person in the world, but church life has taught me to be when dealing with communities of people. That said, I still am gaining more urgency about how we, as a church, exit this pandemic.... or if we exit at all.
I believe the virus will eventually go away. If it doesn't go away, it will at least stop hindering us with mandates and .... maybe at least be able to SING in worship? However, the bigger question isn't what happens to the virus. I believe it is, 'how do we readjust back to how we expected things to be'?
Lent is a time to think about the human condition. As such, we have spent 12 months being conditioned to live a certain way.... to be more isolated, distanced, lonely, depressed... and think differently about how we greet people; how we work; how we play and how we go about our daily life.
As I said in a sermon a few weeks ago, there is quickly coming a series of days and months when we will be able to exit the 'wilderness'. It may be a slow exit, but it will get here. I suggest that we should already be thinking about how we will do it and what we will do when we are out.
One baby step was taken this week at Emmanuel. We had a solid turnout for our new worship time at 10:00. It was so solid that we decided to rearrange chairs for this next week to increase seating capacity, but also keep covid protocols in place.
We can't sit 180 people yet, but it is now more than what it was a week ago.
Baby steps.
God is Good,
Pastor Joe
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