Welcome to 10 minute 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 Patrick and I are going to talk with you about the coronavirus,

the news that no one can escape.

It seems everywhere you turn there's a new information or somebody has a different perspective on it.

Now, we are not going to talk about crisis management. We're not going to talk about this from a medical perspective. We're

pastors. You shouldn't be getting your medical advice from us. Instead, we're

going to think about this Christianly. I was sitting with different groups of men this morning and we just said let's think about this as Christians

What are some things that we should learn what are some maybe opportunities that God has given us that we can

represent him well in our world and our spheres of

influence. So we're just going to try as pastors to sit with you as Christians and

think how should we be responding to this pandemic?

I think answering that question is really important.

Unrelated to coronavirus, one of our friends, Kelly Wumpler,

she tells this story from a few years back when there was someone basically a house in her backyard right across the street where there were people who were selling drugs and there happened to be some sort of drive-by shooting and it was all

incredibly scary and while all this is going on she's noticing that she's got

teenagers cutting through her yard to get to this house and finally she's like

hey I've got to get the neighbors together we

needed to talk about this we need to make a plan and she calls them all over and

as they're coming over she kind of realizes most my neighbors aren't

Christians most my neighbors aren't walking with Jesus.

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