Yeshua Explored
Lockdown – Flockdown
Nov 2021
How has the Church responded?
(This series of articles were written at the beginning of the first lockdown in March/April 2020)
The last time I heard the term ‘lockdown’ I think it was in an episode of Jack Bauer’s ‘24’, when a government building had been infiltrated and metal shutters slid into place, cutting off the building from the outside world. As you read this you will either be experiencing a form of ‘lockdown’ or have it as an indelible recent memory. Our society had been well and truly infiltrated and our lockdown is to keep the Covid-19 menace away from our homes. Of course, it may keep us safe and protected, but it has also shut us off from the world and its familiarities. It insulates us from the necessities as well as the dangers and one of the by-products of this new reality has, for many of us, forced us to re-evaluate our lives and decide exactly what are our necessities?
