Friday; March 24
It has been three years since we were introduced to this thing that would come to be known as COVID. I remember the pressure of trying to figure out how we were going to navigate the changes we expected to be with us for a few weeks. Maybe it was good we didn’t know what to expect – we might have just given up then and there. While the pandemic challenged a lot of what we didn’t and believed, one of the challenges was the importance of worshipping together. I know that some of us came out of the pandemic more committed to attending church services, but others have been slow coming back – some even questioning the need to worship together. One of the most often referenced verses over the last three years has been, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and al