Before I start, let me be clear: I am not trying to convince anyone not to take a vaccine. The choice is yours and I have no wish to influence anyone.
The WCC, however, does think it’s the church’s job to convince people to be vaccinated:
Is the new term for clergy “faith actors”? I didn’t know that. We can only assume it’s because Christian clergy see themselves as thespians playing a role rather than the genuine article.
We all suffer from a fatal disease. It’s called “sin”. There is no vaccine against it. The solution is Jesus. The church has forgotten that that is its primary message.
In its ongoing + Matthew 28:18-20 Gospel Mission to immunize against the Eternally deadly wages of sin (+ Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of GOD is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our LORD.”) ‘World Impact Ministries’, advanced and underwritten by The Reverend Peter Youngren’s ‘Celebration Church’, Toronto – which in December, 2020, also made the justified Case in Ontario Court for the “essential service” of safely open Churches – joyfully announced on April 30, 2021, that, not impeded by the global pandemic, Christ’s Mission mandate continued via its online connection to unreached language groups with 12 plus million souls reached with The Saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.
http://www.graceworldministries.com.
Some non-Chriatian nations seem to do a better job in the current vaccine rollout, e.g. 121.28/100 people in Israel; 72.59/100 people in Bahrain, etc. Perhaps, some non-Christians worry more about physical death than others.
What on earth is a “Faith actor”?
They have a crucial role to play in increasing public confidence in an emergency use vaccine?
Stay in your lane.
At the beginning of 2021, Donald Trump had done well in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States. Canada was far behind in its campaign at that time. The situation is different now. On July 4, Canada had 102.74 doses per 100 people, while the figure for the U.S. was 98.66 yesterday.