We are certainly facing problems in our culture today as we talk about pandemics. What I’m referring to at least in our current cultural context is COVID-19, the coronavirus. We have become very accustomed to those words and that language to describe this virus. It’s interesting to me how easy it is for us as a culture to feel a facade of peace when we think we’re in control of something. Right now we see that control slipping away. It begins to reveal what we hope in. When this facade of having some semblance of control of our own health begins to slip away, we can be prone to fear.
Fear is a symptom that demonstrates we’ve been trusting in the wrong thing. When we think about COVID-19, it’s a new name for a different type of pandemic. This is certainly not the first pandemic that our world has seen, and we are not the first Christians to walk through such a dangerous prognosis of what could be. But I want to encourage us today on the podcast to think about this idea of fear.
What we’re seeing are two extremes, or what I would call two manifestations of
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