More on Housechurches(less on House-a-God's)

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Constantine turned the pagan temples over to the Christians. The former pagan temple priests, who put on a religious show for an hour as the people watched without participating, became the pattern for the "church priests" when the Church never did that beforehand.

This led to the Roman Catholic Church.

The Lutheran Reformation made great bounds with justification by faith, but he took the then-emptied Catholic Churches and filled them as fast as he could with Lutheran ministers, translated his own Bible version and filled Europe with literature. He did nothing hardly different from the Catholic priesthood except allow ministers to marry. So a flurry of ex-Catholic priests started marrying ex-nuns and became most of the ministers in Lutheran churches. Not much of a change occurred in how "CHURCH" was run to get it back before Constantine stepped in.

Calvin pretty well did the same thing around the same time, and "church meetings" never basically changed from the 11am - 12am routine every week with none of the saints participating in real body ministry.