What If ... The Church Looked Different After Lockdown ? (Thinking About Post Lockdown Church)

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What if the church looked different after lockdown and quarantine? What could going back to church after quarantine be like?

The Covid-19 pandemic has closed the doors to our church buildings - it's forced us to change almost everything in our lives.

What will the church look like after the coronavirus lockdown? Is it time for a radical transformation?

In the Bible, God lays out His blueprint for the church - including the following verses,
Matthew 25:40, Matthew 28, Acts 2, as well as many of the “one another” verses in the Bible.

The inspiration for this video about post-lockdown church came from spending time digging into my Bible to discover what it said about what the church should be like - please do comment below with what you feel God may be saying about you and your church!

Apologies for the poorer quality of this video - I shot it all in various locations, only to find that the sound quality wasn't good enough. So I went to this lovely park in Salisbury and filmed it again.
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As you consider life after the pandemic covid-19 and going back to church after covid-19, let’s all be asking God to speak about how our future might look when the doors of our churches re-open.

Here’s the full text of the video, feel free to use it as long as you give me credit and link back to this channel.

Has God closed the doors to our churches for a reason?
In the Old Testament, God gave David the blueprint for the temple that his son, Solomon, would later build.
He’s also given us a blueprint for today’s church, His unstoppable force in the world, but … are we following it?
In His love and grace to us, is this our chance to re-imagine the church and is it time to admit that we may have missed the mark and get back to the original blueprint?
What might/could our ‘new normal’ look like?
During lockdown, many of us have re-discovered what matters, what’s really important.
We’ve realised that what once seemed impossible, is actually possible.
We’ve re-imagined school, re-imagined family time and even the way we shop.
Why not re-imagine the church?
What if we focused on what we had in common with others, rather than on our differences?
What if we came together, not to meet our own needs, but to meet the needs of our community?
What if we championed the overlooked and ignored?
What if we measured our success by the chains we loosened, the burdens we lifted, instead of Sunday attendance? By what we’d given and shared with others, instead of what we own?
What if we grasped the power of small acts of love and kindness to our family, friends, neighbours and work colleagues?
What if we cared for the sick and visited those who are locked in, for whatever reason? After all, we now know something of how what the might feel like.
What if, instead of doing our own thing, we did His thing?
What if, we focused on building communities, instead of on just buildings?
What if we gave ourselves to spending time together, instead of just spending?
What if we were as keen to share the good news, as we are to share the bad news?
What if instead of asking the community to come into the church, the church went into the community?
What if we focused on putting love at the heart of our communities, if we used our gifts to serve one another and our strength to carry one another’s burdens?
What if we poured ourselves out for each other and gave ourselves to our communities?
What if we shared meals with one another, dared to be real, to laugh and cry with one another?
What if we focused on lightening burdens, repairing broken dreams and restoring relationships?
If we turned up the heat from lukewarm to red hot, what would our churches look like?
What could our communities look/be like?
What could our lives be like?
How do you think the church should change after lockdown? What “new thing” do you sense God wanting to do amongst us?
Comment below with your thoughts!
Together let’s explore what a future church might look like … after all, we are the church.

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