Brother Stephen, we want to have on to talk about all sorts of other things, and so when we do debates, the other person's going to be over there, and if you put another person over there with a, like, on a Zoom shot or something like that, they're almost going to be the same size as me because that's a big screen, and so when we have debates, then that's where the other person's going to be, and then we can, you know, like, have the presentations, the PowerPoint, keynote presentation, things like that in between, and there's actually enough room that we could probably put, I don't know, maybe as many as 10 people or so over toward camera one there, and we could do the Ligonier, well, there's a few heads in the shot type of situation here in the room, but you should have seen the room before we started working on it, and you can see that there's been a lot of work done, and I will mention that behind the pretty blue thing here is actually a screen that we can use to put other backgrounds in and things like that, so we'll put, yeah, no, Tom could go on that, giant Tom, big, big Tom, well, Tom is big, but he's not that big, and he's a big Tennessee boy, so our deepest appreciations to all of you, and of course, you can't see back to the back the equipment back there and all the stuff that's been hooked together to make the cameras work and the remote control cameras and all the rest of that kind of stuff that we're doing, so our deep appreciation to everyone who has, obviously, Rich has worked and worked and worked, and Matt has been of great help to us and assistance to us in getting all this stuff put together, and so we really do appreciate everyone who's made this possible, and there's more to come, more things that we, we got to get this working first, then we can start making it more and more complicated, and then when it crashes, it'll just burn the ground, because the more complicated it gets, the more difficult it becomes, anyways, all right, let's, let's make, let's make an application, and it's the application that everyone's thinking about, and everyone's arguing about, it's dividing churches, and it is masks, masks, there's nothing about masks in scripture, I don't think you should go to the section about seeing God with unveiled face, the veil that Moses wore was not a mask, it had nothing to do with disease, it had to do with hiding his face from the glory that he had sort of been shaken off on him, you might say, he absorbed from being in the presence of God, scriptures never address the issues of pandemics as we have today, the scripture does address disease, the scripture addresses quarantine, those who are to be quarantined are those who are sick, it is appropriate to social distance in that sense, there is no basis for accusing people of being sick until they are, but the idea specifically of masks is not addressed in scripture, and so a lot of people think it's simply a matter of freedom to be determined by individual fellowships and churches, okay, then you have the reality of mandates from the government, where the government now says, well, you may have, well, we don't normally have this many, but we have between 650 and 700 people in our service on Sunday, you may have 700 people in your church, but you can only have 100 meet at any given time, and you all have to wear masks, and you cannot sing, now, I know all of the alleged medical reasons why this type of argumentation has been made of late, I do, I'm not proclaiming myself a medical expert, but I did finish all the work for a bachelor of science degree in biology, and I've kept reading in that field, and I can read technical papers, and understand what they're talking about, I have the vocabulary, and so I am aware of the argumentation, but here's the situation, what is the relationship between masks in Romans chapter 13, and government mandates, now, I can tell you that in our fellowship, we have certainly not prohibited anyone from wearing a mask, if someone wants to wear a mask, they can wear a mask, if that makes them feel better, that's fine, but likewise, we have not mandated masks, we have left it up to the individuals to self -govern, pretty much the only major things that we have done since March, for a period of time, we did not pass the offering plate, and we continue to, in our fellowship, we come forward to receive the bread and the wine, and partake of it in that way, I think that's a beautiful thing, why, because you're actively proclaiming your faith, we're told in scripture, we're proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes, well, when I go forward to receive the bread and the wine, I am actively doing so, I think there's something beautiful about that, it's new in my experience, in my history, you would always sat there, and it was given to you, passed down the row, I like going forward, I like this way of doing it, what we do, is we have some of the elders, or normally some of the deacons, in the back with hand sanitizer, and so we take advantage of that rather modern innovation, and so before you come forward, you've gotten your hands sanitized, and so there you go, those are really the only things we've done, we, for a while, we stopped coming forward during the last song of the service, which had been our tradition, but we've begun doing that again, there has been no social distancing, in the sense of six feet, or three and a half feet, or four and a half feet, depends on which country you're in, as to what the number is, that's a magical number, it just sort of popped out of the air, we've not done any of that, and in fact, the building we're renting is a little bit smaller than what we need, and so there you go, there's where we have come down, and so people would say, well, no, if you're not masking, you're not showing love for neighbor, and didn't you have love for neighbor in Romans 13?
