Facts and Truth - A Faculty Opinion on Worship in and after a Pandemic
Public officials strive to follow the best scientific and medical advice in establishing policy. We Christians ought to be thankful when they carry out their God-given vocation faithfully.
At the same time, their decisions may be marred by either a lack or an excess of caution, distorted by political motives, or simply limited by inadequate advice and knowledge. And, of course, their scope embraces only this-worldly concerns. In our thoroughly secularised society, our leaders no longer value the work of the Church.
Public worship, reception of the sacraments, and pastoral care are deemed non-essential, as leaders focus exclusively on protecting physical (and not spiritual) health.
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At the same time, their decisions may be marred by either a lack or an excess of caution, distorted by political motives, or simply limited by inadequate advice and knowledge. And, of course, their scope embraces only this-worldly concerns. In our thoroughly secularised society, our leaders no longer value the work of the Church.
Public worship, reception of the sacraments, and pastoral care are deemed non-essential, as leaders focus exclusively on protecting physical (and not spiritual) health.
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another Lutheran response
Sine Dominico Non Possumus (without Sunday, we can not)
Sine Dominico Non Possumus (without Sunday, we can not)