COVID 19 AND SPIRITUAL

IMPACT

TEARFUND INDONESIA DEVOTION, 6 MAY 2020

CONTEXT
 COVID 19 PANDEMY HAS SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE
 WITHOUT CONSIDERING HUMAN BEING BOUNDARIES, SUCH AS NATIONAL
BORDERS, LEVEL OF PEOPLE WEALTH, RELIGIOUS ETC
 ALL COUNTRIES IMPACTED
 UNCERTAIN END
WHAT IS COVID 19 MEANING
TO US
Despite the unknown and the uncertainty, COVID-19 has offered us the opportunity to reflect on
the spiritual impact it has on the world and our communities.
In this broad sense, the spiritual impact is currently not so firmly positive; however, I believe
that that in the end, humanity, as a whole, can take a spiritual leap forward.
For those who are in the process to self discovery, this moment will help to find their
relationship with God or with universe. This is spiritual leap.
SOCIAL MEANING
COVID-19 creates a worldwide threat but reminds us we are a global community
 Covid 19 is everyone’s problem despite their religion, social economic strata, nationality.
Developing or progressive country, Covid 19 goes beyond everybody’s boundaries
 Overcoming through collaborations, working together, no ego but willing to offer contribution
. COVID-19 demands physical distancing but requires unified societal action
 In Indonesia context, NGO lives in fragmentation due to long history of colonialism and
suspicious feeling to one another or always in race, find a way to reconciliation
 Indonesia society that has been in disagreement since presidential election, is now finding
their way to overcome this decease together
 Bad impact: can lead to : stigmatization, blaming, and scapegoating
1 MEANING FROM BIBLE
ST

Praying from home

will bring into a
realisation that
everybody can have
access to God, either
offline or online
2 ND
MEANING
Time for understanding that, instead of being in
the Church buildings, family members praying
together in their homes is also the real Church or
Body of Christ in a spiritual sense. The call to
pray from home equally assures God’s presence
in line with what Jesus said in the gospel of
Matthew 18:20

Matthew 18:20 (read) ‘’  For where two

or three gather in my name, there am I
with them.”