California church defies court order and worships indoors - Thoughts?

I hate social media, but you will have many millennials that disagree with you for them it is the new normal.

I was actually referring to lockdown in South Africa. At one stage it was illegal for us to even leave our homes without a good excuse. It is better now but during lockdown it was illegal to attend church and we viewed it over the internet on social media.

I still believe there are more value in an intimate setting like a house church than in an over commercialized mega church setting.

Here is another very recent story along the same lines. I heard about it in passing and thought it relevant regardless of whether you agree with his mostly unrelated theological views.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/...e-in-church-because-our-lord-commands-it.html

Quite an interesting read. The city moved against them saturday night (before sunday service) to have the order removed that gave them until Sept 4th for a hearing.

It's a bit counter productive to have one court say you can do something and then to appeal that decision (what seems to be) the night before. Certainly he could still have complied and that probably would have looked better and he would have a much stronger case to my judgement but there ya go.

Grace Community Church in Sun Valley (John MacArthur's church) finally did the same thing. Click on his article's title below to see why they did so.


~Deut

It was on my mind to share, couldn't tell you why. I'll consider that confirmation that it should be shared

Remember when the book of Romans said to obey the law? Pepperidge farm remembers

Obey those in authority, in Roman times that was the emperor....remind me of who is in charge in a democracy, I know it's not the emperor or king.

We are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic

Who is in charge in a contstitutional repulbic, I believe you'll find the answer in the first three words of the preamble.

Until the authorities oppose God, Christ, Christianity, and Christians -- which they all are doing blatantly right now.

All the Liberals/Leftists/Socialists/Marxists were simply waiting for something like this Pandemic Hoax to clamp down on Christians and churches, while giving free rein to looters and anarchists. Indeed churches were TARGETED.

What should have been the universal Christian response? Ignore every effort to control Christian worship since everything about this pandemic is bogus. The virus is real but it is another form of flu, which could have been prevented from becoming serious by early HCQ treatments (which were banned deliberately to increase the deaths and the panic).

Imagine dying of Covid and then when you meet God he says "well duh, what part of social distancing did you not understand?"

Well I can't purchase groceries and household items from church so that's kind of a false equivalency.also unless Walmart is just ridiculously packed most of the time you're never going to get within six feet of another person

It's about the context and precedents that compliance is setting worldwide.
Had no problem with mask while it wasn't mandated. I thought I was doing a good thing. Now I do have an issue, seeing what's going on in the world.
I posted here about police and citizen violent beatings and murders of people who don't wear mask, also about dangers of CoviPass which will restrict travel and freedom in the future.
Totalitarianism that reared its head in every country needs to be opposed tooth and nail.
Australia threatens people who won't take the vaccine, that they won't be able to get pay, to travel.
Video proof in this post. This is recipe for chaos.
This is dangerous, it's fascist, and nothing to do with compassion or virus anymore.
Science does not check out about the effectiveness of masks, and scientists disagree a lot about this issue, but instead of a scientific discussion that we should have, any challenge is not allowed and a smear campaign is automatically ran.

Don't worry, software is already in development developed to track us all and make sure we all comply. And no, you still can't go to church.

There's no scientific proof the sickness is contagious, and if it is, certainly no proof that 6 feet is the magic number beyond which the (alleged) unalive, virus particles cannot jump. Just because you heard it from a talking head on TV don't make it science.

Wait! Did you forget God's grace?! After all, Jesus Christ brought God's grace with him and said he could heal people on the Sabbath if absolutely necessary just like when King David had to eat holy bread, which is equivalent to not going to Church today if absolutely necessary by a government mandate. Jesus Christ reminded everyone that the point of worship and obedience to God is to do good in this world, not to stifle people's lives. If anything, the authorities telling us not to go to Church for the time being is akin of God absolving us from Church for a while. I thank God for his grace. I don't fight it.

Also, is anything you're saying part of the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ or is it all part of the hopelessness and scare tactics of Satan and his godless people? I always refuse all doom and gloom from Satan and his godless minions and only accept hopeful gospel from Jesus Christ and God.

Godspeed.

Looks like COVID FASCISM has taken you captive.

So, you disregard all the talk I said of grace, Jesus Christ, and God? I guess now I truly know the kind of person you are.

Godspeed.