I'm trying to still. church. Thank you for joining me today. Welcome to week number two of a series that we've simply called

the new normal, which I'm trying to still get used to. I am standing in front of a completely

empty auditorium. I'm in my place. Where are you? And I thank God for the miracle of technology

that we are able to gather still without being in these buildings.

But I can't wait for the day that we get back together.

And that's a question I'm getting a lot lately.

People have been texting me.

The staff is wanting to know.

Everybody's wanting to know when are we going to get back together as a church?

And the answer is, I don't really know.

We're kind of taking it day by day because this thing is changing day by day.

And I know there's a lot of talk about reopening the country and doing it in phases.

And we've been in communication with the federal government.

In fact, I was on a phone call this week with some

other faith leaders with Attorney General Barr and the Surgeon General, and just discussing

what that looks like. And they're giving us a lot of support, by the way, which is encouraging.

And I've been in contact with our governor. I've talked to our mayors. So we're coordinating with

them. And we really don't know when it's going to all happen, but we're getting prepared for that.

I will tell you, if you make me guess when it might happen, and please don't hold me to this,

it's kind of dangerous to even throw out a date. But I'm thinking the earliest might be May 31st, honestly. I think that might be the earliest.

It might be much later than that, but we're preparing for both scenarios. I do want to tell you,

though, what I do know, and that is our attitude is we don't want the church place to hurt the workplace.

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