What’s the Comfort If the Coronavirus Is Judgment?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, well, Pastor John's new book, coronavirus and Christ is now available in |
| 0:09.9 | 20 languages, including American Sign Language, and soon to be in 29 total languages with |
| 0:16.7 | the potential for even more languages to be added in the near future. |
| 0:20.7 | It's been very encouraging to see how fast this book has been translated and how far it |
| 0:24.7 | has reached across the world in such a short time. |
| 0:28.3 | We're in the states we've seen pastors buying cases of the book and putting them on a table |
| 0:32.4 | outside the front of their church building so that members could drive up through the week |
| 0:36.0 | and take a free copy. We've seen family and friends posting links to the free book and the |
| 0:40.4 | free audio book online. It's been amazing to watch the DG community help a spread word online |
| 0:45.8 | and offline. Thank you so much. So many encouraging updates have been arriving by the day, |
| 0:51.1 | but of course not all the updates have been positive. This week a major news outlet reported |
| 0:56.2 | on the book in a story of a U.S. Army chaplain under fire for commending the book. |
| 1:01.6 | Senior Army chaplain Colonel Moon H. Kim. He's the U.S. Army's command chaplain based in South |
| 1:07.7 | Korea. He apparently passed along an email to the coronavirus and Christ book, |
| 1:11.9 | passed it along to fellow military chaplains, commended the book to them, and for it got severely |
| 1:17.4 | criticized. So criticized, there's now a call for him to be disciplined and even possibly |
| 1:23.2 | court marshaled in a letter to the secretary of defense published online from an organization called |
| 1:28.6 | the the military religious freedom foundation accuses the chaplain of quote an absolutely |
| 1:35.0 | egregious and deplorable act in quote it says that ensuring the book he gave a quote full-fledged |
| 1:40.9 | endorsement in validation of what the book espouses and proclaims in quote the letter recommends |
| 1:46.6 | that Kim be quote officially swiftly aggressively and visibly investigated and disciplined in |
| 1:52.2 | punishment for his deplorable actions in quote that is for commending your book to fellow |
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