Insights Into The Covid-19 Church Era – Part III
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. No one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.” (Mark 2:21-22)
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"The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan
Come gather ‘round people wherever you roam
And admit that the water around you have grown
And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start wimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
Peter, Paul & Mary sang Bob Dylan’s song to Baby Boomers in their youth. 50 years later, their children and grandchildren are about to sing it back to them. “If you haven’t learned from history, you are bound to repeat it” is a reality. The young, hippie, anti-Vietnam, women’s lib, drug exploring White youth of the ‘60’s is now an old White person wearing a MAGA red hat wanting America to become Great Again when they rebelled against the America in their youth.
50 years later, Covid-19 has turned their world upside down. What is challenging Americans and the Christian Church’s mindsets? Is it a new movement, or a reset of old ones? The ‘60’ experienced the Jesus and Charismatic Movements. Are we on the edge of revival today? If so, let’s see how!