Disruption Brings Spiritual Change

Coming out of the COVID pandemic.

by PASTOR JOHN DEWBERRY

One of the most powerful times in the church has just taken place. The COVID pandemic has changed the entire narrative of how we do church in America. We have been forced to come up with innovative ways of doing ministry as well as doing evangelism with a whole new philosophy.

What the pandemic has done is it has interrupted your ministry or it has disrupted your ministry. Either way you look at it, one of those two situations has happened to ministry.

If the pandemic has just been an interruption to your ministry and you feel that is all that it has do ne, you are in trouble. An interruption means you can continue doing what you were doing without changing anything. An interruption is when you’re on the phone and you place someone on hold and then pick up right where you left off in the conversation as if nothing has happened. That’s not what the pandemic did to our ministries. The pandemic did not stop us for a moment for us to return back to doing the same old same old. The pandemic was a disruption to our ministries. God used the pandemic to force the church to get uncomfortable and to become more about winning the lost for the kingdom of heaven.

If you’re seeing the pandemic as an interruption, you have missed God’s hand. The pandemic was a disruption to force God’s people to be about His business in the world. The blessing of the pandemic was it gave the church exposure to do great things for people in need. So, let’s be about God’s business and allow this disruption to help us become all that God wants us to be.