Thank you Aspasia for posting this clip and listing all the onerous regulations imposed upon this church.
SHORT BACKGROUND:
In the beginning of the pandemic, John MacArthur (Senior Pastor for FIFTY years at Grace Community Church) shut down his 7000 membership church (believing the pandemic was what the experts said it was)... but every week MacArthur preached and live-streamed from the sanctuary to an empty auditorium (his wife and cameramen).
By the 5th-6th week the congregation began returning...with no prompting from MacArthur or the other leaders of the church. First in dozens, then in hundreds, then in thousands.
Since the congregation began returning of their own will, MacArthur and Grace Community Church have been to court 4 times and WON. This 5th time (Fri-Sat), they lost and were explicitly forbidden to hold church indoors.
MacArthur held church today...for the first time in direct defiance of the law.
JUDGE ISSUES ORDER BANNING PASTOR JOHN MACARTHUR FROM HOLDING INDOOR WORSHIP SERVICES by Todd Starnes
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3882975/posts
Christians: Whether or not your local church is gathering or still remote-distancing, Protestant or Catholic, this Pastor and his church deserve the full vocal support of all who belong to the Church.
The sermon MacArthur preached today discusses the responsibilities of Nations, God’s people, and the biblical requirements of leaders in relation to God’s judgement. It hasn’t been published on YouTube yet.
Below is the collection of regulations to the church that Aspasia posted in many posts in this thread:
1. No indoor meetings at all.
2. Preregistration of every person.
3. People only allowed on church property for scheduled events.
4. Every person that comes on the property is to be screened and have their temperature taken at the entry.
5. Six feet of social distance at all times and everywhere, including the parking lot and the restrooms.
6. Every other parking space must be left vacant.
7. Marked pathways to maintain social distance, monitored by staff monitors.
8. Everyone always wearing a mask.
9. Restroom monitors to control six feet social distancing.
10. Tape on the ground marking distance.
11. Signs indicating these mandates.
12. Restrooms are to be used during the service to minimize the rush.
13. No hymn books, no communion, no offering containers.
14. No pew Bibles.
15. No singing, no hugging, no shaking hands.
16. Disposable seat covers changed between services.
17. The services have to shortened.
“1/100th of 1 percent of Californians with a virus apparently wins over the U.S. Constitution and religious freedom for all? That is not what our founders said,” said MacArthur. “Nor is that what God says, who gave us our rights that our government—including the judicial branch—is supposed to protect. The scale should always tip in favor of liberty, especially for churches.”
I may not be a Protestant, Catholic, Baptist, or any other organized church member, but I BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND IS MY SAVIOR.
I can only go to the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY through HIS SON JESUS.
If I still lived in Southern California I would have been at that Preachers services today.