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Spirit and truth: Reckoning with the crises of Covid‐19 for the Church
Author(s) -
Evener Vincent
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12594
Subject(s) - courage , faith , gospel , pride , doctrine , clarity , worship , sociology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , law , religious studies , theology , philosophy , political science , biochemistry , chemistry
The Covid‐19 pandemic forces North American churches to reckon with long‐standing crises and questions surrounding online community, access to worship, decline in membership, the struggle of small congregations, and the reality of our global communion. This article describes a response grounded in faith defined as confidence in our liberation from pride and despair through Jesus Christ. There is need for clarity of doctrine and spiritual courage to fulfill the church's twofold mission to sustain and grow the body of Christ; both these tasks require courage to approach and speak from the Gospel in ever‐new contexts and ages.