In all times, and especially during a pandemic or persecution, it is better for churches to focus on making disciples, not on building and maintaining structures. However, some structure is necessary to send out missionaries to make disciples elsewhere. In Acts 13:1-5 we meet the first church that sent out its own missionaries.
Through his death Christ has brought near believers from the nations who were very far from God.
God has always been with his people, in various ways and temporarily in Old Testament times and later and permanently in human flesh.
In his final sermon in Haggai 2:20-23, the prophet continued to show how God would shake things up in order to bring in his...