What would Quarantine be Like with an APEST Kingdom Culture?

During the quarantine, I've gotten into the habit of checking out what a number of congregations do online.

I normally check out a group that does the full Sunday Morning Show without the audience. To me, it seems odd. You can hear the echo, as the sound bounces off the walls.

And, I see what seems to be something like our house church gatherings with people sitting in what appears to be a living room or a family room, but, always with the staple of Protestantism, the sacrament of the sermon.

And, there are variations between those two extremes.

In any case, what I really see is this:

A concerted effort to continue recent Christendom traditions...to hold on, maintaining the status quo...until old and fallen ways can return without a struggle. 

I attribute that to two things, both of which are unbiblical.

1. The unspoken conviction that to follow Jesus means to maintain the clergy/laity divide, in which members of the clergy are tasked with providing religious products and services to be consumed by the laity.

2. In APEST terms, the plague of shepherd domination. In my opinion, two rotten fruit of shepherd leadership are, first, the valuing of relationship over truth, and, second, the need to create and, mindlessly, observe tradition...or, the absolute inability to innovate.

At times like this in the past, spiritually empowered people of the Kingdom led historic expansion of the Kingdom of God during times like these.

But, today, nearly all I'm see is determination to hold on to established, traditional practices until Sunday Morning Shows are permitted again and the church can receive its stimulus plan forgivable loan.

The demon in all of this is shepherd domination, which produces inept institutions that are incapable of following the Spirit in producing change.

And, knowing the glories of the past, I wonder:

What would the story of the quarantine would be if we thought Kingdom, not church, and if we were a servant community in which apostles, prophets, evangelists and shepherds and teachers were all empowered to live within their calling and, therefore, to prepare the saints for works of service?

The world is suffering today because there's been a shepherd revolution in the past, because a Shepherd Mafia exists, which resists all values not rooted in shepherd ways.

Apostles innovate, in the Spirit, as naturally as they breathe.

Some have been asking what it is we need to repent of. Duh! God gave us prophets who can answer that question in their sleep.

And, evangelists turn our focus outward, in the Spirit, by their nature.

Instead, shepherds and shepherd values and ways rule. And, we talk about change, and repentance, and outreach. Talk, and nothing more. No Spirit-empowered walk whatsoever.

Blame the Shepherd Mafia.

COVID-19 is an opportunity. Because of shepherds, and shepherd ways, it is an opportunity lost.

We must let the Spirit reign.

We must repent.