A Christian who hoped to worship in the Lord’s house this Pentecost reports on his search for a corporate service:
Episcopal cathedral has no interest in opening until July at earliest.
…I asked [a Lutheran pastor] if I can perform some undesirable task(s) that he doesn’t like doing, in exchange for having an excuse to be in the sanctuary on Pentecost during the Facebook service. His church used to attract 10 or 20. His Facebook service attracts 1,500. I can’t fault him for liking the lockdown.
Tyler and Bursch refuses to tell me if any of their 1,200 congregations who they claim are opening this weekend are located [near me]. … I might need to push on that front a little more, maybe even offering a donation if they will find me a church.
A homeless lady and her boyfriend helped me find a parking spot a few days ago. They recently moved into a hotel down the street paid for by the city. She has a brother who is a pastor. He has been preaching in public each Sunday. I think going over to the hotel/shelter and asking around for her and asking her to take me with her this Sunday to her brother’s outdoor ministry is my most likely hope for having a corporate service this Pentecost.
It’s fascinating how the church has been moved so underground that these are the lengths I must go to when there are dozens of churches within a walk of me that were built when this was once a more courageous place. …
We expected too much if we thought Parson Goat would soon open his doors; besides, as our author writes, he’s no doubt rejoicing over his enormous audience on Facebook. But where are the members of these AWOL churches, and why aren’t they protesting such dereliction of duty?
Oh, wait, I think I know: they’re busy carrying water for Wormwood and “calling evil good,” as Milton Lane phrased it when sending me this bilge from Facebook—
Here is the very best possible response to Donald Trump’s urging the Churches to open “right away, this weekend.”
From the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Missouri, Deon K. Johnson:
“The work of the church is essential.
The work of caring for the lonely, the marginalized, and the oppressed is essential. …
The work of reconciliation and healing and caring is essential.
The church does not need to “open” because the church never “closed”. We who make up the Body of Christ, the church, love God and our neighbors and ourselves so much that we will stay away from our buildings until it is safe. We are the church.”
The Marxist who posted this wears a mask in her picture. But you knew that.
5:26 pm on May 30, 2020
