April 20, 2021

Dear John Letter

(on Arguments; both Good and Bad)

Pastor John MacArthur (speaking against the imprisonment of Pastor James Coates and the forced closure of Grace Life Church): "... two thousand people have died through the months of COVID, eighty percent of them in senior homes. The remaining ones had some kind of co-morbidity."

In case you don’t pick it up from the poem, I am aghast.

Dear John: Are you now telling me that

it’s ok not to take care of our neighbour

if they’re going to die anyway?

(even though we’re ALL dying)

Dear John: Are you seriously saying that

we don’t need to be concerned for others

if they’re already in poor health?

(even though we’re ALL troubled)

Dear John: Baby killers use the same words

it’s ok not to let the baby live

if they’re not going to live long anyway

(even though we’re ALL dying)

Dear John: You sound like you’re saying

it’s ok to kill our unborn children

if they’re going to have a troubled life

(even though we’re ALL troubled)

Dear John: If the Church is to argue lockdowns

then it needs to argue better than this

if no case of COVID came from that church

(even though we can’t ALL be certain)

Dear John: If the Church is to fight the enemy

then it needs to take a higher road

if it speaks God’s irrefutable Truth

(even though we’re ALL imperfect)