Successful ministries will seek to collaborate and cooperate with other like-minded ministries to reach cyberculture. Be asynchronous, not time-bound. The online environment is unfettered by time or space. At any time and across the time zones, two or more Christians can gather in Christ s name in a chat room and have church. Church on the Internet is not a weekly or twice-weekly occurrence.
Church can occur at any time and at any place.
Ten seconds pass. Finally, the modem chirps and whirrs, signaling access to the online universe. More spam, probably, Jeremy decides, and he makes the message vanish with a single mouse click. He and Jeremy overcome the language barrier by playing virtual backgammon some evenings, when Jeremy is bored. GammonFiend isn t usually online at this time of day, Jeremy recalls.