num_pages: 48
description: A First-Century Meeting'There I was nervous but curious. My hosts were fairly level-headed types who wouldn't get mixed up in anything out of the way. Being Greeks they didn't have the advantage of a good Roman grounding in our religious and civic traditions. They would be more inclined to fall for one of those secretive emotionally-charged Eastern cults. But then you wouldn't expect a Jew however atypical to get involved in that sort of thing what with his race's over-refined moral scruples and stubborn addiction to a single god.''From a religious point of view the whole meeting left a lot to be desired. What had happened contained scarcely anything religious at all. They didn't even have a priest let alone all the ritual that you expect. This wasn't quite what I had bargained for. Neither decently ritualistic nor exotically mysterious. All very simply and matter-of-fact. I wondered what their god made of this slipshod and common way of doing things. Not at all in the manner to which I would have thought a god was accustomed.'
language: English
title: Going to Church in the First Century
publisher: Seedsowers Christian Books Publishing