Back in April 2020, I lay in bed early one Monday morning (2:29 a.m., to be exact), thinking about what all was going on and how COVID might change the world. I grabbed my phone and jotted down these thoughts of the kind of changes I’d actually be happy to see:
- Prayer will once again be respected both inside and outside of the Church, and the disrespectful will remember that their disdain for “thoughts and prayers” suddenly went away during this crisis.
- Healthy, immune-boosting lifestyles will become the new normal, not the body-destroying, drug-dependent lifestyles of before.
- Hygiene will actually matter, and filthy, disgusting non-hand-washers (and open coughers!) will have made a permanent change away from their previous germ-spreading manners.
- Traditional work models that shunned #wfh as the domain of the lazy will no longer have a stranglehold, and companies of all shapes and sizes will start to implement #wfh options wherever possible.
- Homeschool families will finally have the respect they deserve, and the culture at large will realize that homeschooling is hard those who do it well deserve applause.
- The definition of “church” as a place we go will be eradicated from the language used by the Body of Christ and replaced with the more biblical understanding that the Church is people, not places (or anything else we’ve mistakenly called the Bride of Christ).
- The Church will finally begin to see that a one-way, broadcast mentality from stage to pew may be the actual lowest form of Church imaginable, not the highest as we’ve come to mistakenly believe.
- The Church will finally recognize that genuine worship—in Spirit and in Truth—can have many, many forms, not just the one that looks like a concert.
- Stay-at-home moms (and/or dads) will finally have earned the respect they have deserved all along. To stay at home and care for children is not in any way, shape, or form a lesser calling or a waste of potential: it is straight up, full-time, hard work.
- People will once again recognize that Lord Acton was on to something when he said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” and, perhaps, be a little more reticent about giving those in authority too many opportunities to become corrupted.
Just a few random early morning thoughts.
What would you have on your list of outcomes you’d like to see? (Play nice … keep it clean and civil, please.)
