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Pastor warned to shut down

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xlsdraw

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Sunday, March 29th, 2020 Just hours after the Governor of Georgia advised the religious communities that he would not impose on their right to assemble. Officials in Ware County, Georgia, threatened Pastor Chad Stanley, of Countryside Baptist Church, an IFB church just outside of Waycross, Georgia, to stop assembling or face fines, jail, or both.

This is where this is going folks. Pray for our Pastors.

Everything I read, including here at BB, concerning this virus, is flesh based discussion. This is a spiritual coup. Wake up folks.

I'm sure this Pastor would benefit from emails and calls of support.
 
JonC

JonC

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Here is my opinion - Spiritually based we need to obey the laws unless they are opposed to God. Gathering outside of a physical context is reasonable. It is an inconvenience, but God never said "thou shalt not be inconvenienced".

We cannot be a light to the world if we insist on gathering physically at the risk of being a cause of death for other people.

My concern is more how things will look when this is done.
 
Scarlett O.

Scarlett O.

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We need to obey governing authorities says the Bible. Unless, of course, they are asking us to sin. Having "church" in a unique and different manner is not a sin. Staying at home to save lives is not a sin.

My state, Louisiana, is bad. Both Texas and Florida have placed bans on people from Louisiana from coming to their states.

There are a host of churches live streaming as mine did yesterday. The only people who came were the pastor, song director, musicians, and camera man. On Facebook, 346 people viewed the service. We normally only have 100 people who come to church.

There were churches meeting in a drive-in movie style. With congregants in the parking lot confined to their cars and the pastor using a microphone and speaker to preach from the porch of the church.

My mother's pastor types up his sermon and sends it to every member of the church and more.

Church is going to be different for a while. The gospel is STILL being preached. People are STILL being saved. Three, at present, to my knowledge. People who have skipped out on church for a while have expressed an interest in the things of God again.

God is going to bless the efforts of those churches who [1] obey governing authorities and [2] come up with new and different ways to present the gospel.

Churches should NOT be meeting shoulder to shoulder at this time.
 
Reynolds

Reynolds

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xlsdraw said:
Sunday, March 29th, 2020 Just hours after the Governor of Georgia advised the religious communities that he would not impose on their right to assemble. Officials in Ware County, Georgia, threatened Pastor Chad Stanley, of Countryside Baptist Church, an IFB church just outside of Waycross, Georgia, to stop assembling or face fines, jail, or both.

This is where this is going folks. Pray for our Pastors.

Everything I read, including here at BB, concerning this virus, is flesh based discussion. This is a spiritual coup. Wake up folks.

I'm sure this Pastor would benefit from emails and calls of support.
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I think he should be in jail. God gave us brains, we should use them. SELFISH people like him are making us all appear to be morons. There is still a church in our county meeting on Sundays despite the public health order to stop. I told one of the deacons today that "yall all are a bunch of selfish idiots."
 
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