Where did the early church meet? Houses or Church

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Originally Posted by coadie

slow down buddy. Not so fast. Acts 3
1Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

The example in Acts 5 brings us two points.

1. The disciples were no longer a passive church but took the message to the homes.

Please don't infer since it was noted as evangelizing in homes that it means they were to leave churches.

If the reason they left the synagogues to some extent because of physical attacks by the priesthood, that doesn't meen what you think it does.

A Mature, tired and formal church expects people to come to them. The Great commission says we take the message to the people

2 The churchewas exclusive. it kept the crippled out side. It was soon to try to keep the folowers of Jesus outside the door.

I will expect people to keep going into the temple until there is a physical reason not to.
Saturdays are great days for door knocking. Inviting people to church.

The Great Commission was not about going into every nation and among all peoples and invite them "to church" (the phrase hurts me to even write it).

Centralized congregational assembly with an officiating priesthood is a former thing. God's wisdom provided a dramatic and vivid demonstration; the former building-as-a-tabernacle was erased, brick by brick being dismantled.

The former building tabernacle has been replaced with the substance it foreshadowed; a body. A new experiential dimension has been provided. A righteous lamb and a substitutionary death made a way. A wall of seperation was removed, to bring us as individuals into a shared experience among all other members of a singular body, fitly joined together, with every joint supplying.

Every born-again vessel is part of God's adode, part of the singular tabernacle in which God dwells, his own body, made without any man's handiwork.

Our commission is to carry the message of such excellent good news; testifying about the Kingdom of our God being with men; a stoney heart replaced with a heart of flesh, abundant life as we move and breathe in the anointing of God's spirit, the rights and priviledges of sonship in God's family.

To return again to the former things would be to deny the anointing that establishes the new.