A group of Christian New Zealand pastors are pursuing legal recognition that their government's crackdown on churches during the COVID-19 pandemic was unlawful and damaging.
that saw the Scottish High Court overturn church closures, a small group of New Zealand clergy established FTBC in September 2021 in response to their own country's COVID-19 restrictions.to the government modeled after the one sent to California leaders by the Rev.
"They really did ravage our consciences," said Matthew Johnston, pastor of Riverbend Bible Church in Hastings, of the government response to COVID-19."They violated religious freedoms. They ripped people and relationships apart, which are still fractured to this day." Johnston said at one point the government floated the idea of mandating all ministers be vaccinated before backing down.
"That would have, in effect, been a state-run church, where the qualifications for someone to dispense the means of grace would have had to tick a box above and beyond what the Bible speaks of qualification," Johnston said."You've made a state obligation."government measures were creating a two-tier society where rights were based upon compliance with vaccine mandates.
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