The Post Covid Church

Covid shut down

Pastors imprisoned threatened

Church Non essential

Study to answer the question

Why so many stayed away

Why is the church ?

Instituted by Jesus

King James Version (Chapter 16)

Mt 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Mandate

To proclaim the good news

But what it means for the local ecclesia?

Encourage one another

Teach

Correct

Serve

Edify, to build up to maturity

What is the church ?

The gathering/ ecclesia

1 Cor 12:18 (KJV 1900): 18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

Something more important

What did they get what did they give ?

139:2 He knows everything about each one of us

Prov 15:3

Even in darkness Dan 2/22

Every thought eze 11:5

2 reasons we’ll

Look at

People stayed at home because there was no power :

Read of miracles/ but see none / read of great faith but have none.

Intellectual belief / test of faith / for an Easter life? No a bigger test James ch1

The end time church will return to its roots and become again the 1st century church aka acts

2 The fellowship was shallow

There wasn’t a deep enough tie

To hold them

Their contribution was merely as

Spectators

Their Presence was optional

Dealing with problems

Slow to speak

A great need

Counseling

Mentoring

Sowing into the next generation