text: Wesleyan Methodist minister and media chaplain Frank Ritchie says opposing mass gathering regulations is not a hill on which Christians need to die.
  He describes the resistance to following the Government’s COVID-19 rules by Murray Watkinson, the leader of Wainoni’s revivalist Celebration Centre and other Christian leaders as “extremely sad”.
  Richie says Watkinson’s posts – which pit faith against science, and religious leadership against civic leadership – present a false dichotomy.
  “God has given us brains; God puts leadership in place, so we’re following the words of people who, one could argue, God has gifted with the ability to guide us through these sorts of situations,” he said.