Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

In this episode we're going to do a little cultural examination.

We're just going to step back for a second and say what has the coronavirus taught us about ourselves but more than just us as

individuals our whole culture and I don't just mean American culture I mean almost

global culture because I can't remember a time in which the whole world stopped and talked about one issue.

I don't know a time in which the whole world struggled to figure out life because one little virus has thrown all of our lives no

matter where you live upside down. What is this taught us? What can we learn from

this?

I think one of the most fascinating things has been the migration of religious language

out of the church into secular culture.

It hit me the other day, I was watching a commercial on ESPN and it's this incredibly hopeful commercial.

I mean it feels so life giving but the very last line in this commercial is this where's talking about sports, where else can we find

something to believe in? And I read it and I thought that is religious language. I mean

this is the kind of thing you expect to hear in a church, right? That's something you might sing in a church or hear people say on the street.

Where else are you going to find something to believe in? But now all of a sudden, we're seeing it on ESPN. It's almost as though we're admitting sports have always been a religion.

Or what about the John Krasinski some good news? I love what he's doing by the way.

I find it fascinating but think of the term good news that

is incredibly religious language it sounds like it came out of the gospel of mark out of the

mouth of Jesus. Good news is what Gospel means.

So it's interesting that John Krasinski is proclaiming the Gospel, good news, in this culture in this time but he feels this need to tell

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