How to Learn from a Bad Virus

Learning from a Crisis

When you mountain climb, you always connect your lifeline to another climber long before you face the risk of falling. Once you are falling, it is too late! No one anticipates when a fall will happen, so it is best to be safe, rather than sorry.

Churches need to consider whether people are connected long before the crisis happens. If everybody is being cared for by somebody, then it is a simple thing to communicate through the existing relationships to find out who needs extra care and prayer.If the connections are missing, then it becomes a monumental task to assign church staff to identify who might be at risk, then to start calling everyone in person.When the early church faced their first crisis, widows being neglected, they didn’t add the responsibility to the current pastoral staff, they delegated to those who were spiritual, but also relationally connected, the Greek widows were assigned to the most spiritual Greek leaders, as we can tell by the names of those who were chosen (Acts 6:1–7)

Jesus promised that His “burden is light and well fitting.” I believe that often, those of us pastors who are struggling with burdensome ministries are doing so because we are not doing God’s work God’s way by “equipping the saints to do the work of ministry (Ephesians 4:11–16)

Check out what other pastors are learning:

How To Stay Connected To Your Small Group Leaders During COVID-19.

7 Shifts Churches Need to Make Because of the Coronavirus.

5 Good Things That Can Come From 1 Bad Virus.

8 Decisions Leaders Should Make During a Crisis

So what are you learning?