Given the events of the past eighteen months with a global pandemic, the question about the necessity of gathering for church has been brought to the forefront. In this biblical theological series on answering the question about what is the church, we see that the church by definition means to gather and assemble before God and for one another. This is for the purpose of receiving God's grace and testifying to the powers of the Age to come when God's kingdom will be realized in all its glory and splendor.