A Message from Pastor Paul
A few thoughts on the Coronavirus stiuation. Two comments I've seen in the headlines or in news reports stand out. The first was in the Bozeman Chronicle, it said, "Uncertainty demands caution without panic". The second was the sentiment written on a large banner and hung out of a window in a house in Italy, it read, "the longer we stay in, the sooner we can hug."
The attitude expressed in both those statements are commendable. There have been other sentiments I've heard in recent days which were less commendable.
We may not all agree on the course of actions everyone is being called on to make, but this is where we are at. There are quite a few unknowns we are facing with this viral outbreak. This only adds to the fear and confusion. None of us want to have our daily routines, our needed work, responsibilities, the fiber of our social and worship lives disrupted, but his is what we are facing.
The scriptures which we should turn to in all circumstances tell us, admonish us to "bear one another's burdens". Further on, in that same Galations 6 chapter is this encouragement, . . . "let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."
This is the stance we are being called on now to take up, in every possible way we can, and perhaps in some creative ways, . . . maybe utilizing old methods as well as new. that we might be examples of the faith for others to see and follow, and in so doing, fulfill the greatest "guideline" ever given, to love God and one another.
The attitude expressed in both those statements are commendable. There have been other sentiments I've heard in recent days which were less commendable.
We may not all agree on the course of actions everyone is being called on to make, but this is where we are at. There are quite a few unknowns we are facing with this viral outbreak. This only adds to the fear and confusion. None of us want to have our daily routines, our needed work, responsibilities, the fiber of our social and worship lives disrupted, but his is what we are facing.
The scriptures which we should turn to in all circumstances tell us, admonish us to "bear one another's burdens". Further on, in that same Galations 6 chapter is this encouragement, . . . "let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."
This is the stance we are being called on now to take up, in every possible way we can, and perhaps in some creative ways, . . . maybe utilizing old methods as well as new. that we might be examples of the faith for others to see and follow, and in so doing, fulfill the greatest "guideline" ever given, to love God and one another.