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One thing that I can’t get over: JMac’s “civil disobedience” move reveals the limits of evangelical imagination. Historically Evs have been on the cutting edge of innovation for the purpose of evangelism, but it’s still primarily dependent on the major revival model.
Mac’s claims that following guidelines would be disobedience to Christ assumes that obedience to biblical principles behind gathering, fellowshipping, and singing *should* be measured by the size of the congregation.
Since GCC is a thousand+ member church, anything less than a thousand+ gathering is an unbiblical restriction. But this simply isn’t the case. Evangelical attachment to certain models and programs has become so thorough that any threat to those programs and models...
...feels like a threat to gathered worship itself. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with those models, but there’s also nothing inherently unbiblical with adapting when prudent. When masks and social distancing become threats to the fabric of the church...
...rather than necessary annoyances, which they are, then you have to start questioning what valences “church” and “worship” actually carry in your theological/ecclesial vocabulary, and whether those valences are more restrictive than scripture itself dictates.
