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.
Although some adults tried to keep children away from Jesus, he welcomed them in Mark 10:13-16 as models of how to enter the kingdom...
In Jonah 3, we find that God did not give up on Jonah or on the people of Nineveh, which encourages us to believe...
Paul praised God the Father for choosing us and predestining us to be his children.