{"id":17966,"date":"2020-05-18T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2020-05-18T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:57:53","slug":"8-resources-for-reopening-in-person-church-services-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=17966","title":{"rendered":"8 Resources for Reopening In-Person Church Services During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-COVID-19-Coronavirus-and-the-Church.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been a Sr. Pastor, an Associate Pastor, and a Lead Elder. So, I know something about the stresses of pastoral decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&rsquo;ve never been a pastor in a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>So, I find myself praying a lot for my current pastor and the staff and elders at our church, for past churches where we&rsquo;ve attended, and for my scores and scores of friends who are pastors.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Praying and Planning<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Throughout the book of Nehemiah, God&rsquo;s leaders always <em>prayed and planned<\/em>. So, in addition to praying for my pastoral friends, I wanted to provide some planning resources for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <strong>8 Resources for Reopening Church Services<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Here are 8 resources designed to help pastors, staff, leaders, and people think wisely about reopening in-person services during these COVID-19 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Humility and Submission Are Especially Important Right Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My life-long friend, Steve Viars, is Sr. Pastor at Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana. If anyone is a &ldquo;go-getter,&rdquo; it&rsquo;s Steve. If anyone is passionate about churches meeting to encourage one another and about churches impacting their community for Christ, it&rsquo;s Steve. When Steve talks about (and models) humility and submission, we should listen. For biblical wisdom on how to humbly respond to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are collated resources designed to help pastors, staff, leaders, and people think wisely about reopening in-person services during these COVID-19 days.<br \/>\nThe post 8 Resources for Reopening In-Person Church Services During COVID-19 appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2357,1956,304,142],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-churches","tag-covid-19","tag-pastors","tag-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-COVID-19-Coronavirus-and-the-Church-300x100-2-1.png?fit=300%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17976,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}