Former Evangelicals Now editor John Benton has warned UK churches not to ‘take their cue’ from overseas, and ‘be bamboozled’ into breaking government guidance over meeting together.
In a blog for the Pastor’s Academy, he laid out seven concerns he has with encouraging congregations to ‘defy the government’.
Christ’s reputation
He ends the blog: ‘I dread to think what it might do to the reputation of Christ if the meeting of a church in contradiction of the government’s guidelines becomes the cause of a new spike of cases. How will that be seen as loving our neighbours? Don’t be bamboozled by people in your congregation who take their cue from America. Think it through for yourself from Scripture.’
