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Pastor Reeves,
I read about your experience with CoV2. I’m happy to hear you are recovering well. I also want to encourage you to do some research, independent research, on being given a shot after you have natural immunity. My own pastor went through the same or similar experience you have had. A year later after having a blood test, he is still producing high levels of antibodies and has been ministering without fear of contracting the virus because of the natural immunity he now has. Again I encourage you to think before you encourage others who have already experienced CoV2 to be unnecessarily be inoculated with what is still an experimental chemical gene therapy, it is not a vaccine. -
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Dear Pastor Reeves:
I heard your comments on NPR's "Morning Edition" and am writing to congratulate you on your almost full recovery from Covid-19 and to let you know that I've added you to my prayers in hopes your recovery will soon be a full one.
At the same time, I urge you to rethink your stance on what to say to your congregants regarding vaccines, masks, and the sin of pride. I say that because I infer that the anti-mask/-vaccine stances of so many, many people are the product of pride, one of the seven deadly sins. I urge you to consider that.
Consider Matthew 4:7—Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’” Compare that with Deuteronomy 6:16 (“You shall not put the LORD, your God, to the test, as you did at Massah”); to Exodus 17:1-7 (From the wilderness of Sin the whole Israelite community journeyed by stages, as the LORD directed, and encamped at Rephidim. But there was no water for the people to drink, and so they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to a test?” Here, then, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why then did you bring us up out of Egypt? To have us die of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!” The LORD answered Moses: Go on ahead of the people, and take along with you some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the Nile. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink. Moses did this, in the sight of the elders of Israel. The place was named Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD in our midst or not?” ); Psalms 95:8-9 (“Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the desert. There your ancestors tested me; they tried me though they had seen my works.”); Luke 4:12 (“Jesus said to him in reply, ‘It also says, “You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.”’”); Corinthians 10:9 (“Let us not test Christ as some of them did, and suffered death by serpents.”) and on and on and on.
God gave us all intelligence to use for humankind’s benefit, i.e., the benefit of ourselves, our families, and our communities—worldwide—yet many have refused to accept the facts that intelligent, educated, experienced individuals have repeatedly brought to our attention and, as a result, many refuse to wear masks and to be vaccinated, relying instead on the intercession of God to save them from the ravages of Covid-19.
If that’s not pride, I don’t know what is. Those who refuse to accept the bounty of wisdom God provides us through science—a direct product of the intelligence, education, and experience God gave people in different amounts (consider the varying awards given the workers in field [Matthew 20: 1-16])—reject God, regardless of what they say they reject.
I urge you to consider that possibility and, if you agree that pride is the culprit, then say so. If you believe the culprit comprises false prophets who pooh-pooh science and sway the gullible to abandon the intelligence God gave them, then say so; bring those lost sheep back to the fold. If you believe that the culprit is fear instilled in the hearts and minds of those who are confused, who can’t grasp the wisdom and knowledge provided by God and that those who refuse masking and vaccination need to have faith in the bountiful wisdom of God as manifested in science, then say so.
Yes, thank God for your recovery, but your thanks must extend to saving others from the mistake you made. The scales have fallen from your eyes. You need to remove the scales from the misinformed and the doubting lest they jeopardize the health and well-being of themselves, their families, their friends, their acquaintances, their fellow congregants, their neighbors, their communities, and humanity itself.
That should be your mission.