CORONA VIRUS DISEASE: IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY

Abstract

The church no doubt is part of the society. Hence, whatever that affects the society affects the church. When in the month of April 2020, the government moved for the lockdown of the society, every other facet of the Nigerian society was affected. Mostly affected in this exercise was the church. The church to an average Christian in Nigeria serves as not just an antidote but as an umbrella of relief to myriads of life challenges. This researcher is poised to x-ray many of the impacts of covid19 on both the society and the church. The researcher adopted observational and qualitative method in eliciting relevant data required to do justice to this research. In the course of this research, the writer observed among many impacts that the total lockdown of the society unleashed quantum of economic hardship on the people while the spiritual life of most church members was adversely affected. The paper recommends that in times of pandemic such as covid19, lockdown affecting the church must be avoided because such a trying moment requires the corporate prayers of the church.