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Originally Posted by Aquila
Wow. In a "church setting"? LOL! Don't you know that Christians didn't have buildings for nearly 300 years! They gathered in homes. The gathered in mass in public locations such as town squares and the temple. When that proved to be dangerous they'd meet in barns, caves, and caverns. The "church" isn't a building... it's a body. Anywhere two or more are gathered in Christ's name you have the church... be it a religious building, a home, a barn, a park, a coffee shop, a tavern... anywhere.
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Wow...where do you get your information? It appears you imagine most of it. A place to worship would not be a new concept to the early church. Besides synagogues and a temple, they were familiar with the concept of a tent of meeting in the OT and later the temple. Yes, in the NT there were houses they would meet in, by riversides, and EVEN buildings. Paul on more than one occasion made a distinction between their houses and the house of God. Oh by the way, these distinctions between their houses and the house of God was not 300 years after Pentecost.
1Co 11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
1Co 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.