Good points. I’d say our faith in the Lord might not have been weakened, but our trust in church leadership - the little trust that was left - has been utterly destroyed.
The churches are tripping all over themselves trying to prove how obedient they are to the State, even to the point of imposing harsher restrictions than does the State.
“The churches are tripping all over themselves trying to prove how obedient they are to the State,”
Boy, not ours! We’ve been meeting for several weeks now. And we sing hymns - loudly - which we’ve heard we’re not supposed to do.