As COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, civil authorities around the world issued lockdowns and social distancing edicts which, in effect, forbade churches to gather for corporate worship. Many pastors and church leaders caved to the pressure, opting for exclusively online services, while others scrambled to formulate a biblical response that upheld God's command to Christians to assemble as a body for worship. Once such pastor was Timothy Decker, who grappled with this key question: Does Romans 13 command Christians an unqualified obedience toward the civil magistrate?