For more on this topic, check out Jonathan’s book One Assembly.
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Should COVID-19 quarantines and governmental restrictions on church gatherings impact how we view the nature of a church and whether or not multiple services or sites are permissible?
This question becomes especially germane with the talk of our cities opening back up. Suppose your church has hundred members, and your state says fifty people can now gather. Do you begin to meet again by dividing the church between two or three services?
CHRIST’S CHURCH DOESN’T CHANGE
A number of friends have put some version of this question to me in recent days. They know that my new book, One Assembly, argues against the multisite and service structure. I believe the Bible teaches that a group of Christians must gather regularly to be a church. Which means your 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services are both churches, as are your north and south campuses, at least as the Bible views them.
Yet here we are with many “churches” presently “meeting” through Zoom calls or holding “services” through livestream. Does that make me reconsider what I wrote in One Assembly? Do these circumstances change the nature of
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