In a Church Encounter of the 3rd/3-D Kind, your experience of “what church is” is being a personal, active, vibrant part of creating a spiritual family environment in which everyone, from children to senior citizens, participates personally in building one another up and reaching out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
There could still be a lecture at a gathering each week, but it wouldn’t be virtually the only content in the gathering. Instead, there would be contributions by others of all ages in numerous ways.
And you would do everything in your power to get together more than for two hours once or twice a week.
For those not living close enough to easily meet multiple times a week, this might mean AT LEAST getting together for much of the day on the day of the primary weekly gathering for a variety of activities.
It would include eating together as often as possible, and using the time to minister to one another, pray for one another, and plan joint projects with one another.
For those who primarily live in close proximity to one another, especially with their own “church building,” it would mean getting together numerous times during the week for a variety of social, educational, evangelistic, and spiritual activities and projects.
And it would mean that everyone would be using all of modern technology available to them to keep in regular contact with others within the fellowship circle in other ways, such as texting and talking on phones, exchanging email, participating on Facebook.
