Amos was a shepherd, To be a shepherd was one of the top professions in the Middle East in his time, Patriach St Augustine called him a ‘minor prophet’, not based on importance but the size of his recorded works. He had a passion for justice and a concern for the disparity between the haves and the have nots. He had a vision ‘concerning Israel’ which led him to proclaim that God was saying, ‘I hate, I despise your religious festivals’.

The Covid19 pandemic has killed lots of religion - the ‘outward forms of faith, but lacking alignment’. Before pandemic we tended to deify Sunday meetings. Perhaps they were our sacred cows? The pandemic has helped us prove that we really are community.

How do we kill our sacred cows and keep the main thing the main thing?