{"id":12280,"date":"2020-03-06T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:31:13","slug":"the-coronavirus-how-should-christians-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/the-coronavirus-how-should-christians-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coronavirus, How Should Christians Respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In this episode I talk about how Christians should respond to the Coronavirus and how we can use it for the Gospel. I also respond to Rajesh from Singapore who asked?<\/p>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><em>&#8220;Kindly do clarify whether 1 cor 3 is speaking about leaders. If yes, how do we apply for believers?<\/em><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><em>How do we understand that they will be saved even his work is burned in fire?<\/em><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div><em>Is he speaking about false teachers or some other category?&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FTGT_S01E04.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fthe-coronavirus-how-should-christians-respond%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/TGT_S01E04.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?powerpress_pinw=12280-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/TGT_S01E04.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TGT_S01E04.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 43:17 &#8212; 39.6MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('12280-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_12280-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_12280-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FTGT_S01E04.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fthe-coronavirus-how-should-christians-respond%2F#mode-Light&amp;border-000000&amp;progress-000000&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;165&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; id=&quot;blubrryplayer-2&quot; class=&quot;blubrryplayer&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/feeds.blubrry.com\/feeds\/nowisthetime.xml\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.blubrry.com\/feeds\/nowisthetime.xml\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode I talk about how Christians should respond to the Coronavirus and how we can use it for the Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[297],"tags":[527,528],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-coronavirus","tag-sickeness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Copy-of-Uncomfortable-Questions-on-Love-and-Marraige.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-3c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12316,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/9-things-christians-shouldnt-do-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":12280,"position":0},"title":"9 Things Christians Shouldn\u2019t Do During the Coronavirus Pandemic","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"March 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Do a quick google search of \u201chow to avoid the Coronavirus\u201d and you\u2019ll find a lot of interesting advice on what you should and shouldn\u2019t do. 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