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A Christian’s response to the Coronavirus.

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  The Christian and Coronavirus We have a heavy topic today. How should a Christian respond to the Corona Virus? Perhaps this topic is on your mind to one extent or another today or perhaps you have been asked what is your response to the way this has spread in the world. I would like to answer that question by looking at the example of Jesus and through the view of a young lady named Francis. We could summarize Jesus’ response with two words. Jesus showed compassion, and confidence. Jesus showed compassion toward the hurting and confidence in God. An Epidemic In this video, we visit a mass grave in Queens where many people died with smallpox. This type of thing happens very often in world history in larger or smaller ways; pandemics devastate cities and countries. Consider young Francis when Cholera came to NYC. There were several waves of Cholera in the 1800’s. In her account described in her autobiography, it was the late 1840’s. Even in her day, there would be