The Church Vs. The State Civil Disobedience

[Mrs.Anteater]

In case anyone is still interested in this situation...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gracelife-church-edmonton-covid-1.5977931?fbclid=IwAR01a230CZ5vjbodEbxY_BP3I9Z72uh4Cm_HKgr0ZYoYIk9kOIviwvTbaKA

What took them so long?
When NS had set limits on number of people partying and the fine was $1000 for that, people started to put their money together to make up the $1000. So NS switched to $1000 per person. That worked.
They could have done something months ago.

 

[Northwind]

And on another note north of Fort St John, BC

Prespatou Mennonite Church

 

[Luce NDs]

Remember these are our Christian siblings ...

Reason for sibling rivalry? What demon is behind the initiating god ...

 

[GeoFee]

There are a lot of idiots in our world.

 

[GeoFee]

Apologies for using the word idiots. Better to speak of such persons as lost in the dark and resistant to light. Language can be as deadly as bullets.

 

[Luce NDs]

Apologies for using the word idiots. Better to speak of such persons as lost in the dark and resistant to light. Language can be as deadly as bullets.

The word idiom is better ... easier for real folk to deny! Thus the word is sunk ... hanging below normal ...

 

[GordW]

In case anyone is still interested in this situation...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gracelife-church-edmonton-covid-1.5977931?fbclid=IwAR01a230CZ5vjbodEbxY_BP3I9Z72uh4Cm_HKgr0ZYoYIk9kOIviwvTbaKA

Rading Twitter on the topic of GraceLife "Church" today was.......interesting

 

[Luce NDs]

What is interesting is how stoic people freeze up and refuse to learn about motivational rights and remaining's ...

 

[Mendalla]

Kind of hate to bump this thread, but a friend of ours (@revsdd) retweeted this excellent piece on the issue by Michael Coren.

The easiest country to govern | Rev. Michael Coren | The Critic Magazine

An elderly friend, now very much a society matron, was introduced as a young woman to then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Along with many of her female contemporaries, she had something of a crush on…

thecritic.co.uk

 

[Waterfall]

Kind of hate to bump this thread, but a friend of ours (@revsdd) retweeted this excellent piece on the issue by Michael Coren.

The easiest country to govern | Rev. Michael Coren | The Critic Magazine

An elderly friend, now very much a society matron, was introduced as a young woman to then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Along with many of her female contemporaries, she had something of a crush on…

thecritic.co.uk

And I think he made a good point towards the end.....NOBODY including government is preventing anyone from worshipping God.....just asking us all to find a safer way to do it.

 

[Waterfall]

I do wonder if the pandemic has actually contributed to churches going out into their immediate surrounding world to feed the poor and becoming more aware of needs in society than ever before.

 

[Mendalla]

I do wonder if the pandemic has actually contributed to churches going out into their immediate surrounding world to feed the poor and becoming more aware of needs in society than ever before.

For the ones not focussed solely on protecting their "freedumb" perhaps. I am sure a lot of it would just be churches already doing that work expanding it, though (e.g. ELFA, East London Faith Alliance, here in London).

 

[BetteTheRed]

Although we've temporarily lost some of our more passive outreach (like providing space for Anon groups and the Cubs and Guides movements), I'd say our outreach team has just been doing things differently (like gift cards for the Moms in the shelter on Mother's Day instead of individual shoeboxes of goodies), and some things more. Our church has taken a morning (Tuesdays), to support a "feed downtown people breakfast" initiative.