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Acts 29: Churches Planting Churches So much has changed. And rapidly. Most of us have been required to make unprecedented adjustments in our work, travel, worship, finances, and social arrangements. With COVID-19’s march across the globe, the unified call has been to temporarily withdraw from the lives to which we’re all accustomed. It was only a few years ago that Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option caused a splash in the Western church by calling for a strategic withdrawal to rebuild a deep, devoted counterculture within the church that would be able to weather the growing storm of secular hostility. Dreher’s argument was that we should “stop trying to meet the world on its own terms and focus on building up fidelity in distinct community.” In this way, a backward step that gains format...

Acts 29: Churches Planting Churches Here in Italy, my neighbor’s kids just left a gift for my wife and me outside our door. It’s a drawing of a rainbow with the words Tutto andrà bene!: everything’s going to be ok! This is a lovely sentiment, but Italy’s casualties from the coronavirus have recently overtaken China’s. Things don’t feel even close to being ok in Italy. As I write, hospitals are at breaking point or beyond—especially in northern Italian regions. Coffins are piling up, and many deceased are dying alone. Infections are high and show no signs of slowing. All Italy is on lockdown as soldiers are called on to ensure people respect the stringent measures. This is not merely an economic disaster; for some, their very survival is uncertain (migrants with no daily income, savings...

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