This was a social media post in March of 2020 when the churches stopped services during the beginning of the pandemic.
Is church cancelled due to the coronavirus?
Well that depends …it might be. What do you mean exactly by church?
Modern Christianity (from my experience) is most confused and immature about what is the church (ecclesiology).
Even Christians who seem to have good explanations about church, who are pros behind a mic or a keyboard. Marching around like they own the place, who preach sermons about this very topic. Rarely behave according to what they preach about the ecclesia. They can’t, it’s too costly.
It seems to me that in ecclesiology we are infants, newborn. (Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, clergy and laity) all newborns together… laying around goo goo ing at one another. Can’t yet crawl or roll over or get our own milk bottles.
I think this Covid19 pandemic is shining a fresh light on this fact.
Church is not an event.
Church is not a meeting.
Church is not an experience.
Church is not a traditional show or a contemporary show …of singing and oration.
The ecclesia that Jesus is building (and he has all the time in the world to build it) does not need fancy buildings or high tech buildings or large crowds. In fact I’m convinced he not only doesn’t need them he doesn’t want them. This is because he has something better and superior to that.
Real ecclesia (Church) can only be “cancelled” if Christians are no longer living or no longer Christians.
The church (ecclesia) is a Jesus-following people. A collection of people who form a body which exprssses the life of Jesus Christ.
Not expressing him by putting on constant evangelism/ self-help shows for one another.
It’s a Jesus-people from another kingdom entirely, who share their lives together, periodically their needs and their excesses, and who periodically gather to express him together.
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