If I were to time travel and partake in a very early Christian church service, what would I expect to see at such gathering? How did they do things during the very early times of the church, versus a few centuries nearer to the Middle Ages, as well as comparing and contrasting post-Protestant Reformation and generally modern norms? Would they usually start with a choir or worship music performers singing, make an announcement to the congregation, then get into a sermon, and later on, participate in Communion? How similar or different could the very early Christian gatherings be to conventional church services now?
>If I were to time travel and partake in a very early Christian church service, what would I expect to see at such gathering?
>>17273244In America, Pastor Jim would be waiting for you with his rock music preserved from Tubal-Cain's pre-flood era and his bunch of pre-Christian Christian hebrew speaking Amerindians
>>17273244Idk, here is a ChatGPT generated image of second century Christian breaking of the bread service.
>>17273363You know what, this doesnt seem that bad. I can totally see it happening like that.
>>17273368Modern version Makes you think
>>17273363>>17273368It reminds me of the Catacombs of Rome, but maybe rather taking place in a street-level room of some sort, due to the window. It could likely just be an apartment room, though.
>>17273363>>17273368>>17273391>>17273392The room is the LLM inventing some kind of dungeon, and they wouldn't be sitting like that, that's not how a Passover Seder is done, they'd all be reclining. We know what the room that the Last Supper took place in looks like, it's still present and is a popular international tourist destination.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle>op isn't just talking about the last supper thoughYes but the LLM is clearly pulling from depictions of it, which are not historically accurate.
>>17273401> Yes but the LLM is clearly pulling from depictions of it, which are not historically accurateWhat do you think the Eucharist is
>>17273244This book is an attempt to convince the reader that early church worship looked EXACTLY like modern Orthodox liturgies.It's an interesting concept but the book has literally no citations. I've only read a few chapters so far.
>>17273577>When asked to picture the earliest churches—the congregations founded and ministered to by the apostles—many today imagine a meager gathering in a small home, likely a bare room. The people would sit on the floor, facing a visiting apostle or teacher, who would lead them in worship, perhaps by singing a hymn or psalm and praying. Then he would teach the group. His message, so it is assumed, would have been simple: Jesus is the Messiah; He had died for their sins. They should put their faith and trust in Him, and they would go to heaven when they died. In the meantime, they ought to set aside their sinful ways and love one another. Simple, unadorned, plain: that is how many people imagine the religion of the apostles to have been. >Yet when these same people find themselves in an Orthodox church, their experience could not be more different from this mental image. An Orthodox church is a space dedicated for worship, not a room in a person’s home. It is bedecked with iconography and beautifully furnished. The sharp fragrance of incense fills the air along with chanting, perhaps in a language other than English. The clergy wear colorful robes and move in and out of sight behind a partition that obscures the view of an altar. The service is complicated and confusing in its structure and is difficult to follow even with a service book. The hymns and prayers and preaching are filled with foreign, untranslated words of unclear meaning. It would be counterintuitive to suggest that this seemingly elaborate spectacle bears more in common with the religion practiced by the apostles than does the simpler, more primitive picture our modern imagination conjures up. Yet it is precisely this claim that forms the basis of The Religion of the Apostles.
>>17273577>EXACTLYI am sceptical of that claim. We need to be careful and look into archaeology as well as history, including the writings of the early church fathers, rather than what various medieval-to-modern church traditions say.
