You know how we read Biblical scholars who say things like “The exile was a crisis that caused a complete re-evaluation of faith”?

Doesn’t it feel like one of those times now? The history of our faith is being rewritten. What matters is being re-evaluated.

I already agreed with Phyllis Tickle’s 500 year rummage sale idea. The church if white middle class respectability was already dying.

But the virus, social distancing, and a Holy Week without our church buildings will really finish the process.

In this crisis, people will either discover their faith has sustained them, and be committed in a new way, or that we were irrelevant to this crisis, and not bother.

And the church will likely never be the same.

Preachers, what we say *this week,* more than perhaps any other of our lives, will shape people’s faith forever.

I don’t think the church will ever be the same.

And I’m ok with that.