The COVID crisis has had many significant effects on our culture and world over the last two years, and that includes our churches. Many were forced to shut down, others chose to do so voluntarily, and in almost all of them there were dramatic changes to how we worship, gather, and function as a church body. In the Post Quarantine Church written by Thom S. Rainer, he addresses many of these changes but more from a perspective of, “What then should we do?”
// REVIEW BY PASTOR RANDY NELSON
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