One thing is for sure, when Covid-19 is finally behind us, the ‘new normal’ will not be the old ‘normal’.
I was speaking to a businessman in my church who was saying that his company surveyed all 400 or so of its employees and not one of them said that they wanted to go back to working full-time from the office – not one! There will be some areas where things will go ‘back to normal’ but, as Christians, we need to reckon with the reality that the pandemic has changed how people think about life online for good.
Depending on a range of factors – age, stage, background, whether you are more of an early-adopter or a Luddite – this realisation may fill you with excitement, fear, or any emotion in between. Here are three pointers to help shape us as we have important conversations about the implications for churches.
