@sinbach in answer to your closing question I think it most certainly should - this is where our berrybunch.family website was born; adpatation to a changing situation!

but since most churches got stuck in a loop of 'but we always used to meet THIS way so we'll wait until we can do what we have always done' i fear not many lessons will be learned...

there will be those that will adapt - indeed there were some great initiatives from churches in the UK, who simply looked at their local needs, met them, and grew - both financially and in numbers, while not meeting physically as they always did. they seized the moment!

but they were the ones we heard little about, and infrequently.

i want to hope that churches are silently doing what is needed....i fear the silence is due to a lack of 'doing' rather than being careful about sharing

Andy B