The Church has dropped the ball these past 2+ years. When people were being threatened with termination for refusing a bio-weapon injection that violates their human autonomy and freedom of choice, the Church should have stood up and said, "We will support you. We will meet your basic needs." Instead, the government told them to shut their doors to their organized religious institutions and they willfully complied. Men and women who worked hard to get where they were willingly gave up their careers, but the Church could not be bothered to perform its basic function: to look after the widows, orphans, poor, sick, and imprisoned. The Church could not step up and look after those who were hurting and suffering. Instead, their CEO (the "pastor") and Board Members (their "elders") took part in causing hurt and suffering by dividing their own bodies according to government sanctioned dictates.
Consider the following...
A pagan actor became a Christian, but he realized he had to change his employment because most plays encouraged immorality and were steeped in pagan idolatry. Furthermore, the theater sometimes purposefully turned boys into homosexuals so they could better play the roles of women on stage. Since this newly-converted actor had no other job skills, he considered establishing an acting school to teach drama to non-Christian students. However, he first submitted his idea to his congregation for their counsel.
The congregation told him that if acting was an immoral profession then it would be wrong to train others in it. Nevertheless, since this was a rather novel question, they wrote to Cyprian in Carthage for his thoughts. Cyprian agreed that a profession unfit for a Christian to practice was also unfit for him to teach, even if this was his sole means of support.
How many of us would be so concerned about righteousness that we would submit our employment decisions to our congregation? How many congregations today would be so concerned about offending God that they would take such an uncompromising position?
But that isn't the end of the story. Cyprian also told this neighbouring congregation that they should be willing to support the actor if he had no other means of earning a living— just as they supported orphans, widows, and other needy persons. Going further, he wrote, "If your congregation is financially unable to support him, he may move over to us and here receive whatever he needs for food and clothing." Cyprian and his congregation didn't even know this actor, yet they were willing to support him because he was a fellow believer. As one Christian told the Romans, "We love one another with a mutual love because we do not know how to hate." If Christians today made such a statement to the world, would the world believe it?
How far Christianity has fallen...