Tony Evans, the pastor of a Dallas-based megachurch, warned in a toned-down sermon Sunday—delivered from a chair in his living room—that fear was spreading more quickly than the coronavirus and urged his audience to not let “worry own you.”
Like thousands of other pastors across America, Evans was far removed from his regular routine of preaching before his flock while he honored a coronavirus lockdown. For the foreseeable future, sanctuaries have become empty shells. While the buildings are closed for business, God is not.
“Worry and fear have a way of transferring very quickly from you to other people,” Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, said as a fire crackled behind him, The Christian Post reports.
No choir. No vestments. No altar.
“I think that’s what’s happening with this virus,” he said in a YouTube video of his sermon. “The virus is not the only thing that transfers quickly. Our anxiety, worry, and fear is outpacing the problem of the virus because it’s consumed the mind, the heart, the energy and the emotions of our selves, our families, the whole nation and even the world.”
Using Matthew 6:25-34 as his text, Evans offered a straightforward antidote: Don’t worry.
“We have a legitimate right for legitimate concern. What we don’t have the right to do is worry,” he said, adding that worry is “concern gone…
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