do this in memory of me. and throughout all the christian communities, whether they were jewish christians or gentile christians, that partaking of the bread and the wine in his memory became the central focus of his worship. but that eucharist would have looked much different than the ritual we see today, as paul reveals in corinthians. but the lord s supper, as he describes it, is not a funny different sort of practice with tiny wee little wafers or bits of bread and a thimbleful and a sip of wine or something. it is something which is integrated into a normal meal. he talks about some people going away hungry and other people having too much, so it s integrated in a normal social sort of context. and while the new testament mentions the idea of a church, using the greek word ekklesia, early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. ekklesia simply means an
gentile christians, that partaking of the bread and the wine in his memory became the central focus of worship. but that eucharist would have looked much different than the ritual that we see today. as paul reveals in christiorint. it s not a practice with bits of bread or sip of wine or something, it s something which is integrated into a normal meal. he talk about some people going away hungry and other people having too much. so it it s integrated into normal social sort of context. while the new testament mentions the idea of the church using the great lake word ecclesia, early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. it simply means an assembly.
early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. ekklesia simply means an assembly. early christians, early followers of jesus would have met in private homes. they might have met in public buildings. they began in a synagogue. they broke from a synagogue, and they met in houses. in corinth, where you have very wealthy gentile christian and jewish christian leaders, you would have a villa. and maybe a villa could host 75 or 100 people at one time. baptism took place at home and also the eucharist. the eucharist has its roots in the last supper. but who presided over these rituals was then an open question. the earliest christian churches were not organized according to a hierarchal structure such as we think of today where there might be a pope, for example, in the catholic church or bishops over churches or priests or even pastors over churches. the early christian communities,
and while the new testament mentions the idea of a church, using the greek word ekklesia, early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. ekklesia simply means an assembly. early christians, early followers of jesus would have met in private homes. they might have met in public buildings. they began in a synagogue. they broke from a synagogue, and they met in houses. in corinth, where you have very wealthy gentile christian and jewish christian leaders, you would have a villa. and maybe a villa could host 75 or 100 people at one time. baptism took place at home and also the eucharist. the eucharist has its roots in the last supper. but who presided over these
having too much, so it s integrated in a normal social sort of context. and while the new testament mentions the idea of a church, using the greek word ekklesia, early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. ekklesia simply means an assembly. early christians, early followers of jesus would have met in private homes. they might have met in public buildings. they began in a synagogue. they broke from a synagogue, and they met in houses. in corinth, where you have very wealthy gentile christian and jewish christian leaders, you would have a villa. and maybe a villa could host 75 or 100 people at one time. baptism took place at home