PROPOSING A DOUBLE-EDGED TEST
In the Soviet Union, believers would meet in places like forests. The atheist government objected even to that. So one could test the California state government to see whether it is really the spread of COVID they're worried about, or in fact they have an anti-Christian agenda. Meeting outdoors, where there's good air circulation, and with appropriate social distancing, is extremely low risk from an epidemiological point of view. If California o...bjects even to that, then we'll know where they really stand: that their ultimate real agenda is the same as that of the Soviet government in times of yore. But if believers object to the idea of meeting outdoors and insist on their "rights", then we'll know that they are placing comfort ahead of the command "not to forsake meeting together". A test for all!
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4).
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