804: Should Christians Wear Masks and Attend Large Gatherings? Evan Wickham
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Evan Wickham is a pastor, church planter, song writer, and worship leader. He's the pastor of Park Hill church in San Diego (https://www.parkhillsd.church) and has been wrestling with how to handle CA governor Gavin Newsom's order against indoor church gatherings. Should Christian churches obey or disobey this order? How essential are large indoor gatherings for "being" the church? Are Christians being persecuted?
We also discuss the weirdly controversial topic of wearing masks.
Should we do it? Protest it? What's the rationale for wearing or not wearing a mask?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so I was texting my buddy Evan Wickham. |
| 0:06.5 | Evan's been a good friend for many years. |
| 0:08.8 | He is a pastor. |
| 0:10.0 | He's a church planner. |
| 0:10.9 | He's a singer-songwriter, musician, worship leader, and seminary |
| 0:15.4 | graduates, just a really thoughtful guy, he texted me and said, hey, what do you think about |
| 0:19.1 | churches in California? |
| 0:21.7 | Should we gather against the governor's orders or should we obey the government |
| 0:26.2 | in this case? |
| 0:27.2 | What does it mean to gather as the church? |
| 0:29.6 | Are we disobeying God if we're not gathering, are we disobeying the government if we're not gathering are we disobeying the government if we're not |
| 0:33.8 | gathering or are gathering and what about the whole Christian or I guess just |
| 0:38.4 | larger political debate about masks do they work should Should we wear them? Should we protest wearing masks and what is our rationale for doing? So we get into all the hot button stuff simmering in our COVID-19 era. So we recorded this conversation in a YouTube |
| 0:58.2 | live conversation so you may hear us referencing some people that were chiming in |
| 1:02.4 | and asking questions and you can also find this |
| 1:06.1 | episode of video of this episode on my YouTube channel at Press and Sprinkle. |
| 1:10.7 | But I yeah I want to release this on the podcast to you because it was really it's a raw conversation |
| 1:16.6 | So I mean again I said we said we both said this during the episode. I'll say it up front just as a reminder I'm not a scientist I don't know I'm not a mask |
| 1:26.7 | expert I'm not a political scientist so I look I don't even live in California |
| 1:31.9 | We are just two guys who are doing a lot of reading, |
| 1:35.1 | doing a lot of thinking, and sort of thinking out loud about, yeah, just the church's relationship in relation to various volatile questions in our COVID-19 era. |
| 1:48.8 | So please welcome back to the show, the one and only, have them with them. I'm here with my good friend. |
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