1 December 2007
When The Church Was Young
Posted by craigkendall under: Body Design; Other's Words .
I’m adding some link categories for stuff I come across that seems to be on the path where God is taking me. I’m not 100% sure where it will end up, but I am 100% sure those comfortable in their weekly rituals of religion will be uncomfortable with where it appears God is taking me. Today I was reading a blog about myths of church as we seem to know it. A book by Ernest Loosley was referenced (which I’ve ordered to read… it was written in 1935! WOW!) . Here’s a quote from the beginning of the book:
“When the church was very young, it had no buildings. Let us begin with that striking fact. That the church had no buildings is the most noticeable of the points of difference between the church of the early days and the church of today. In the minds of most people today, “church” means first a building, probably something else second; but seldom does “the church” stand for anything other than a building. Yet here is the fact with which we start: the early church possessed no buildings and carried on its work for a great many years without erecting any.”
—Ernest Loosley, When The Church Was Young
It would be an interesting blog series to do a myths about “the church” we adhere to that just are not there! Hmm… I’ll have to consider that one.
