Tuesday, July 27, 2021

We Are In This Together


Churches can do several things to fight the resurgence of COVID-19 across the United States.

1. Promote vaccination.

2. Promote other public health measures such face masks and social distancing where health experts are recommending these measures.

3. Provide accurate, reliable information on vaccination and other public health measures.

4. Serve as vaccination sites.

5. Provide transportation to vaccination sites.

6. Be sensitive to the concerns of the unvaccinated

7. Help people to understand that God works through ordinary means like face masks and vaccines as well as extraordinary means. The divine barrier that God may be raising between them, other members of the community, and the virus may be the face mask they are wearing and the vaccine they have received. 

Wearing a face mask and being vaccinated does not show a lack of faith in God. On the contrary, it shows faithfulness to our Lord’s commandments to love our neighbors as ourselves and to love each other as he loves us, a faithfulness that is rooted in our trust in him. 

Love does not tell someone not to wear a face mask or not to get vaccinated!

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