I am monitoring your posts and have concluded that you are batting for the wrong team buddy.
I am flattered. It is nice to have fans. This must be what it feels like to be an "
Influencer".
In all seriousness, when I started this thread I was hoping that the vaccine would be safe and successful and that it would be made available in my state before I contracted the illness and had to just suffer through it. I wanted the easier path to anitbodies. I wanted it for other people too and I want thousands of older people to live and not die simply because a vaccine is not available.
That is still my prayer, and I believe God has heard it and we will have more than one type of vaccine available soon. (Soon being within 6 more months).
In addition to praying for a vaccine, I have been learning how to navigate through the onslaught of social media driven conspiracy theories and then the discovery of how many of my church friends are leaning on the side of the conspiracy theories that I find ridiculous nonsense.
I have gone from wanting to give them information to get them to see that they are ruining their testimony and credibility from ever being able to evangelize the Gospel message to the same people they are evangelizing with their strange theories, and get them to recognize that this is a severe consequence.
And then I have decided I would not bother trying to explain anything to them, because they are "idiots" and not capable of common sense, which is why they are evangelizing made up lies in the first place.
Not a very loving attitude in my heart I confess and that I have had to repent of.
I can ignore responding to wild theories that make no sense and are technically impossible, and just not say anything to the person spouting it. It is hard for me to
not say something, but I am learning to let it go... However,
The division between brothers and sisters that is being birthed because of these theories is the
real problem and I know that this needs to be addressed and combated as soon as it begins to raise it's ugly head in our churches. We must not let it run a muck unchecked or unchallenged. This requires wisdom on our part as to how we let our brothers and sisters know that we all have the right to our own opinions and theories but God has called us to peace in the body of Christ and we should be focused on an agreed vision of Jesus Christ and the mission of God that He has given us to work together toward, and to remember that the servant of the Lord must not strive. That Mission of God is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
If I want a vaccine and you don't we can still agree to disagree and stop talking about it to each other before we get to the point that we have determined one of us in on the wrong team.