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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

Key Purposes of a Local 3-D Church

The past three blog posts have briefly outlined some general characteristics of three kinds of local church groups and church gatherings. What if you and your friends wanted to start from scratch and nurture a Church Encounter of the 3rd/3-D … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

Church Encounters of 3 Kinds: The 3rd Kind

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 … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

Church Encounters of 3 Kinds: The 2nd Kind

Your experience of “what church is” is primarily a two-dimensional experience—being a spectator at a weekly meeting—but in a more entertaining setting. The primary focus of the meeting is still a lecture, but it is a more engaging lecture, which … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

Church Encounters of 3 Kinds: the 1st Kind

In a Church Encounter of the 1st Kind, your experience of “what church is” is essentially a one dimensional experience–being a spectator in a boring setting once a week. You are part of a church gathering in which you and … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

Ignoring a key

Research has shown that church fellowship groups that combine their efforts into active outreaches in evangelism and community service experience more unity and less bickering. Such active groups also have an atmosphere at their gatherings that becomes more and more … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

The Amish Model?

How can people be satisfied with Church… including music, order of services, dry sermons with no use of modern multi media and so on … being the same as the last 200 years, when they’d go nuts in any other … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 1Y ago

What Church should be like

In 1988 my husband, daughter, and I visited EPCOT Center in Florida for the first time. I’d enjoyed visits to California’s Disneyland and Disney’s Florida Magic Kingdom several times, but something about Epcot took those experiences to a new level. … Continue reading →
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 2Y ago

The Power of Spiritual Nostalgia

Why do you suppose so many folks expect new TV shows every season, new movies in the theater, new Billboard Hits … but when it comes to church, they expect it to be EXACTLY like it was 150 years ago??
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Church Encounters of the 3-D Kind · 2Y ago

Going first

While I was making plans for the launch of this blog and its related website, a friend sent me the link to Stuff Christians Like blog. I really took to heart the first thing I read there: “There are going … Continue reading →
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