Can the Church Survive COVID-19?

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Church is more than a building. It's a people. So is social distancing a church-ending threat? Or is COVID-19 offering the church fresh opportunities for mission? https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Keith) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick) discuss the most important threats facing the church today. Interested in more content like this? Go back and listen to Keith's episode https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/are-we-hypocrites-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-12-1/ (Are We Hypocrites? ) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.0	And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:14.0	If you're a pastor or you work at a church or you care about church,
0:18.0	there's a good chance that someone has already asked you,
0:20.0	how is the church going to survive COVID-19? The reality is I'm getting a lot of
0:25.5	questions Keith's getting a lot of questions about how coronavirus is going to change
0:31.2	the church. What's going to be the long-term effects of this worldwide
0:35.6	pandemic? Why do we call it COVID-19? Is it a coronavirus? Like I called the
0:40.0	coronavirus forever and then all of a sudden it became cool to call it
0:43.1	COVID-19 do you have an explanation for that? Well yeah I feel like Corona makes me
0:47.8	think of the beer so it sounds less serious COVID-19 is like you know your stuff. Yeah that's exactly right COVID-19 is like you know your stuff.
0:53.0	Yeah, that's exactly right. COVID-19 sounds like you're smarter.
0:57.0	You put a number in and all of a sudden, everybody's impressed.
1:00.0	And COVID, I don't know, but I like coronavirus. Anyway, so we have been asked lots of questions about it and I think it's from people who come from places where they really love the church and they're worried about the church and they're just asking hey can the church
1:13.6	survive this virus and I think what they have in mind is that people are migrating
1:19.8	more and more online for their whole life.
1:22.6	It's as if this virus has pushed the accelerator
1:26.5	of this migration online in every area of our life.
1:29.2	And can the church survive if people like online church and don't ever want to come back to what people
1:37.0	think of as the real church.
1:39.4	When you think about what we do as a church, virtually every dimension of it is non-v ritual. We gather together
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