Saw those reports. Pastor Jeffress from Dallas First Baptist was on FOX this morning saying people will come to church than get live streaming because it’s like sitting in front of a warm fire compared to sitting in from of a picture of a fireplace.
How about do you want to sit in front of a picture and be able to return to church in a few months or attend tomorrow and never live to see another Sunday.
Church isn’t a building. The house of God is closer just sitting on your back porch catching some healthy rays surrounded by His creation.
The Bible nowhere says that you are closer to God sitting on your back porch catching some rays.
You may well be in some instances but that is not church. Church is specifically coming together for worship, under authority, hearing the preaching, praying and singing together, collecting, properly taking communion, bearing one another’s burdens and fellowshipping.
Now if hindered due to illness you are hindered. It’s not a sin to avoid church if medically indicated. Or perhaps you are in prison or a slave kept from leaving the house or any number of things.
I just speak to the notion that church is the wilderness or whatever. It isn’t.