I am reading a book called Pagan Christianity -Exploring the roots of our church practices. It makes an interesting remark on Emperor of Rome Constantine converting government, theater, and pagan church buildings for use by Christians. Are we aware of any early church building descriptions that look the way they do now before the time of Constantine?
All of the churches I’ve been to have pews, pulpit and stage, a large sanctuary room. Apparently all of these things are adaptions of things that the Roman government and Pagan churches used. We got rid of a lot of the stuff that came during the dark ages, but it seems likely to me that we should go further, and remove everything that has non-biblical origins.
It might be easy to dismiss me as small minded since I think that Roman and Paganistic heritage of church buildings would be enough to not use use them, but I’d urge anyone who thinks to simply reject this idea without further research to read this book and think about the deeper issues that the book describes. It’s only a single chapter, and doesn’t take long to read. In my county the public library system has many copies of this book.
So I’m wondering what are the arguments for not having church in our houses?
