Hello, all. My name's Layton Flowers. I am the director of evangelism and apologetics for Texas Baptist.

And I'm at home, like many of you, in the quarantine for the coronavirus and was just recently introduced to a article on the Christianity Today website by Ed Stetzer that really brought some attention to some things that I

thought should be highlighted for those that tune in and watch Sociology 101 as well as those

who are involved with Texas Baptist and evangelism that I'm involved in, that this is a unique

time in history for the church. This is a time that's often seen as a crisis because many people

have lost jobs or will lose jobs because of this crisis and just because of the quarantine.

And I want to bring attention to the fact that spiritual eyes are often more open during the time of crisis.

People are searching for answers. And this is the time that the church can really be a

lighthouse on the hill, assault to the earth. And this is a time for Christian leaders to really

begin to step up. And Ed Stetzer did a really good job, I think, explaining some of these things

and even highlighting the fact that this really is a crisis that we're entering into.

He says this.

He says, this is not the crisis.

This is the calm before the storm.

And we as pastors and church leaders need to change our mentality.

And I know that may sound like that to some people,

they hear this and they think, well, you know,

this is not as bad as the the Spanish flu or the you know the

SARS virus or the avian you know bird flu and you look at the statistics of how

things work but what we have to remember that is this is that when we when

we're looking at history and the way these things

work, those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it, as has been said. And the truth

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