Throughout the world, the church finds herself in a unique season. Pastors are wrestling with practical questions about how to faithfully shepherd God’s flock when we can’t gather. Yet it’s not only pastors who have responsibilities during this season. The church must continue to be the church.
But how do church do that when they can’t do the very thing that makes them church in the first place: assemble?
I’ve instructed my congregation that if we pay attention to our church covenant, we’ll have some clear marching orders for how to live in this season. Here are a few ways our church covenant practically helps us obey our Lord and live out these pandemic days faithfully.
1. The Church Covenant Defines My Commitments to Others
While this global pandemic interferes with our promise “not to neglect to gather,” it does not abridge our biblical obligations to each other. We’re still called to be the hands or feet to a body. But how? Our church covenant makes at least some of these responsibilities explicit. We are still responsible not to “neglect to pray for ourselves and others” (Col 4:2). The “ourselves and others” are not just your closest friends or family
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