Where Did Ancient Christians Meet?

To this day, Orthodox Christian homes have an icon corner where daily prayers and some small services can be done. In a pinch, a full liturgy could be done in a home if a priest brought a few things.

I recently came across this channel by accident, while watching videos on Gnosticism. All of your videos are informative, and well presented. Subscribed.

Eastern Orthodox Christian here. When young in the 70’s, used to go to ‘old calendar’ Greek churches in humble houses in Oregon. Beautiful services with Byzantine Chant sung in English and with much feeling.

I like this video. I’ve been watching this channel for a while in random order. This seems to be an older one. What I like about it is that it gets into something concrete that tells us more about the actual experience of the early Christians, which tells us so much more than discussions of vague arguments over the trinity or the nature of Christ’s physical being.

The parts of this I could hear over the very loud music track were quite informative

Yes, very good, but the music is to loud and distracting.

Very interesting videos. But the background music is very annoying, especially if you are not native english speaking.

Dude, that moth/butterfly at 0:33 spooked me, can’t believe you weren’t thrown off by it while recording. Also, you’ve come an incredibly long way but this is still good content. Would love to see a book at some point. Like a religious literacy for the lay person, lol.

Great lecture. You clearly and concisely covered the topic. Loved the visuals which helped bring the lecture to life. Thank you.

Research of the Insular Church is part of my Church plant's foundation. Solid video my friend.

Thank you for this channel! I wish you could include one of the most famous house churches in your discourse: the Church of St. Hanania (Ananias) in Damascus. It is near the Eastern Gate at the end of Straight Street. French monks have built a complex around it, but the original rooms are still used for daily church services. They are below street level, now, though it is unclear whether that is because of historical elevation or if the secret meeting room was always below ground.

Thanks for this video. I've been studying this matter for a few years. I think you have done a really good simple study on it. The idea of dedicated buildings for Christian meetings cannot be found in the New Testament or in the first 250 years of church history. It was beautifully simple. Would love to return to that kind of simplicity. Acts 2:46: "With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,"

The bass background music is amazing.

Second vid of yours I’ve seen and I just subscribed I love how even handed you’ve handle the subject of faith in a time when we have the ‘saved’ on one side and the atheist on the other throwing stones at one another👍

There are a lot of comments on the music in this one. I actually like the piece that is being played, interesting harmonies, a sense of mystery. However, the level is too high. It’s overwhelming the speech. So keep the accrual piece of music but get a better sound guy to balance it.

The music makes it sound like you're building up to a grand reveal that the early church gatherings were actually all done on spaceships!!

Everyone asks where did Christians meet, but never how did Christians meet? Seriously. It didn't look anything like any sort of modern service, did it?

Love your videos bro, but you gotta mix that sound from the music down. Great music but it's taking away from your voice.

The loud music though

Love your videos, but the background music on this one made it almost impossible to hear you.