David White

David White is connections pastor at Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. His role is to help people connect – and stay connected – to Christ, the Church and to each other by utilizing human-centered design as the basis for ministry planning. He is the author of the e-book Life Is Whacked (Un-Whack It) and its companion Workbook for Guided Self-Reflection.

David White

There is no ‘new-normal.’ The question is what we will choose to normalize in this moment.

Will we choose the pathway of least resistance, passivity and acquiescence? Or the active pathway of thoughtful, intentional and deliberate discernment about those things we will shed and leave behind and those things we will normalize going forward?

The church that returns from lockdown will not be the church that left the building

We have learned some things about ourselves during these weeks as physically scattered churches. The poignant question may not be how will WE as the church emerge, but rather first how will I emerge? Or, what part(s) of the body am I now?