If I had only attended one of these places, I probably would have concluded, “This place is what being a Christian is all about”. But these three points form a plane, and by moving around on that plane I can view Christianity from a lot of different angles and extrapolate a lot of other kinds of churches.
This idea of “third options which break overfit 1D mental models” has stuck with me for a big portion of my life now.
This three-factor framework reminds me of an idea from this: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=12768
This idea of “third options which break overfit 1D mental models” has stuck with me for a big portion of my life now.