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Old 07-29-2007, 09:47 PM
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Famous Re-packaging Since the First Apostolic Church

2.0 New Testament Canon is approved to be read to the churches. Although inclusion of certain books was debated for a few generations, eventually the current list is widely accepted.
4.0 Christians went from home churches to building a community church building
15.0 Holy Bibles begin to be printed on a printing press, and the common church members are allowed to have a copy for their personal use. This was highly debated as some leaders thought the dangers of the common man misinterpreting scripture would cause the church problems.
16.0 Western Culture introduces men to wearing pants. After much debate, eventually men are allowed to wear pants in church, but platform must continue to wear robes.
16.3 Worship songs based on the equal tempered scale are introduced to the church. The change from Gregorian Chants to ‘weird’ harmonies was a hard pill to swallow and took two generations to be accepted.
16.5 The Western Apostolic church allows men to have a smooth face by shaving closely.
16.6 After much debate, the use of the modern printing press to make religious flyers and tracts is approved.
17.0 Women are allow to wear tight waisted dresses, exposing women’s hour-glass figure in public. This took two generations to be accepted as norm for the church.
18.0 Women’s ankles are allowed to show in their dress.
19.5 Organs and piano music is made a part of church worship.
19.7 Electric light bulbs are allowed in church buildings.
19.8 Roberts Rule of Order used for church business meetings.
20.2 Churches start allowing indoor toilets, and have indoor baptismal tanks.
20.3 Clean shaved faces on men and beehive hairdos on women are expected on church members
20.4 Accordions and tambourines become common church musical instruments
20.5 The Hammond Organ is ordained as the official church organ
20.51 After much debate, the use of radio to evangelize the Apostolic message is approved.
20.52 Women’s dresses up to the knee , and men wearing suits are expected church dress.
20.53 Churches start having choirs sing.
20.6 Churches start taping sermons for church members to listen to at their leisure.
20.7 Drums and guitars start showing up as churches start playing fast dance type music.
20.9 Church begin video taping services, but are not allow to show on TV.
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