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Context After three days of argumentation, our constitutional challenge wrapped up today. We challenged the constitutionality of our government’s capacity restrictions on churches here in Ontario. There have been various restrictions over the past two years that have drastically limited the amount of people allowed to participate in church services. On several occasions, these restrictions
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“For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?” – 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 The more a culture distances itself from
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Since June 2020, by God’s grace, we have had the privilege of baptizing over 100 believers, many of them recent converts, some of whom trace their salvation to worship services that we held during lockdowns. We have a couple more new believers lined up to be baptized this Sunday at our church, Lord-willing. One was
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Yet Another Lockdown… Here in Ontario we find ourselves in the midst of yet another lockdown—the harshest one yet at that. It’s been more than 13 months since the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a worldwide pandemic back on March 11, 2020. For well over a year now, we’ve had to put up with rolling
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It has been said so often that it has become a cliché: “We live in unprecedented times.” Never has the entire world essentially shut down and never has the church, worldwide, been held from gathering for so long. Many Christians in the midst of this crisis are trying their best to think through their response
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I understand that many people are wrestling with these topics and I want to be extremely patient with those that are thinking this through and have not arrived at the same conclusion that I have. Admittedly, it’s taken me a lot of time, study, thought, and prayer over the last couple of months to arrive
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When the government commands us to stop doing something that God commands us to do, what should we do? Who do we obey? The Bible is clear: “We must obey God rather than men.” – Acts 5:29 On the one hand, God commands us to gather for Lord’s Day worship. But on the other hand,
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  The last time that we assembled together as a church was on March 15. Since then, due to COVID-19 assembly restrictions, we have ceased from gathering publicly and have instead uploaded pre-recorded worship services for the past seven Sundays. The purpose of these online worship services is to feed the sheep and to help
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