Our founder and CEO, William Vanderbloemen, writes about how the church is gathering during social distancing in a recent article from The Christian Post.
---I was a pastor, and I’ll never forget the crowds from that day. People flocked to church. We had to add extra chairs. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen. Fast forward to Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. The space shuttle Columbia exploded upon reentry, right over Texas. I was a new pastor in Houston and didn’t realize how close that tragedy would hit the city that bore the space program. Church was packed. Just like 9/11.
In times of panic, people need to gather. In times of sudden uncertainty, people flock to church. And they like being together. Social distancing is necessary right now, but the Scriptures tell us that the very first thing God says is that it’s bad is for us to be “left alone.” (Genesis 2:18)
So what is a pastor to do when there’s a greater desire than ever to hear a message of hope, but the solution seems to be not to gather together?