Jim Bakker Show - 3 Notes For The Church On The Coronavirus - Dennis Shearer
Aired: 2020-03-05
Duration: 02:58


=== Lack Of Public Preparation (02:17) ===

[00:00:00]  And what do you think about the coronavirus?
[00:00:05]  What is it saying to you as a biblical person?
[00:00:08]  Well, I think when we look at this book, The Great Influenza, I just want to leave today with these three thoughts because I think we're answering right now the three concerns that I see in this book.
[00:00:20]  Number one, when you read this story, and I had a cousin who died in 1918 from the, you know, she was infected on a trolley car in New York City.
[00:00:27]  Really?
[00:00:29]  Three things.
[00:00:29]  Number one was a lack of preparation, particularly public preparation.
[00:00:35]  Now, preparation is two levels, accurate knowledge and right tools.
[00:00:40]  Number two, there was a lack of clear communication.
[00:00:43]  And number three, there was a lack of a strategic recovery plan.
[00:00:47]  See?
[00:00:47]  And what we're talking about on this show today is the lack of preparation as far as public preparation.
[00:00:53]  We're putting knowledge today in people's hands.
[00:00:56]  That's right.
[00:00:56]  We're also putting tools in people's hands.
[00:00:59]  Secondly, we're trying to give clear communication as to the state of things, not causing people to fear, but to be on alert.
[00:01:06]  And there's a difference between panicking and being on alert.
[00:01:09]  You can be on alert without panic to fear, but we need to be on high alert.
[00:01:14]  This is high alert.
[00:01:16]  And thirdly, most importantly, which maybe we'll talk about another show, is the lack of a strategic recovery plan.
[00:01:22]  What do you do?
[00:01:22]  And even as Tucker Carlson just shared, what do you do when that many are infected?
[00:01:27]  And this is going to go on for a couple of years.
[00:01:30]  So anyway, that's what I'm seeing.
[00:01:32]  And I think the church, particularly this ministry right now, we need to be on high alert to say, let's counter those three things.
[00:01:39]  And I think we're doing, I think, Jim, you're doing a great job.
[00:01:42]  And this ministry is doing a great job to provide the solution that was missing in the Great Influenza.
[00:01:48]  Am I wrong when I say the church should be in the middle of any problem America has?
[00:01:53]  We are the hope of the world.
[00:01:54]  We are the solution to the deal.
[00:01:56]  We should be from a place of security and peace informing this in the middle of this tumult.

=== Lack of Accurate Communication (00:56) ===

[00:02:02]  We should be saying, here's the proper communication.
[00:02:07]  Here is the right knowledge to the best we understand it.
[00:02:10]  And here's some tools.
[00:02:11]  Here are some tools.
[00:02:12]  We're talking about putting the solution.
[00:02:15]  We're talking about the meals.
[00:02:17]  The silver gel.
[00:02:18]  We're talking about, again, going back to this book, I looked at it again last night and then today, the lack of preparation, and that's knowledge and tools, the lack of accurate communication and a strategic recovery plan.
[00:02:31]  That's what I've taken out of this.
[00:02:32]  And I mean, I'm not old enough to have known that cousin, but I know that my cousin died, she was three years old, on a trolley car in New York City, people coughing and hacking all around her that were let go from a hospital, not properly treated, and she died three days later.
[00:02:48]  So I think that this ministry right now, particularly everything we've mentioned today, is pointing hope and direction to those that hear what's going on.
[00:02:58]  We should be on high alert.