Church Since the Pandemic: Episode 733
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How COVID has impacted the way we do church, plus discovering your life purpose, and should single adults foster and adopt children?
Featured musical artist: Aaron Strumpel ( http://www.aaronstrumpel.com/ )
Roundtable: COVID and the Local Church
Since the start of the COVID pandemic, many churches have seen a big drop in both attendance and volunteers. Congregations are divided on things like mask mandates, vaccines, livestream technology and more. Our panelists share what has changed for them in experiencing church post-pandemic, and what has stayed the same. They also offer encouragement for staying focused on the gospel and making in-person worship a priority.
Culture: The Research Behind Finding Your Purpose
God made our lives to have direction and meaning. But struggles and disappointments abound, and it’s easy to lose our way. Dr. Stephanie Shackelford is a senior fellow at the Barna group where she’s done excellent research on how one can find their unique calling in life. She shares practical insights for moving ahead with clarity, including a four-step process: define, discover, decide, and do.
Inbox: Should a Single Adult Foster and Adopt Children?
She’s strongly considering adopting a child. But the big question looming in her mind is, does the Bible say anything about single adults adopting children? And either way, what are the pros and cons? Dr. Sharen Ford, Focus on the Family’s director of foster care and adoption, weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Belmas Show. |
| 1:13.3 | Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 1:15.1 | And as I often like to do, I'm going to give you a little preview of what's coming up. |
| 1:19.5 | First up for our inbox later on, we have a listener who's wondering if there's a biblical basis for adopting as a single person. |
| 1:28.0 | I know a lot of you have wondered about that. |
| 1:29.9 | And so we have got, fortunately, our Dr. Sharon Ford here, |
| 1:33.3 | she's director of foster care and adoption for focus on the family. |
| 1:37.9 | And she's going to offer some insights on that. |
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