![]() ![]() ![]() The normative practices of the first-century church were the natural and spontaneous expression of the divine life that indwelt the early Christians. ![]() In this book, we intend to show how that organism was devoid of so many things that we embrace today. And that expression revealed Jesus Christ on this planet through His every-member functioning body. It was a living, breathing organism that expressed itself far differently from the institutional church today. ![]() The church in the first century was an organic entity. The book tells the story of how “church” morphed into what it is today. More specifically, the common practice of church is radically different from what we find in the New Testament. The message of Pagan Christianity?was simple: We have departed from what God has called the church to be. Yet within its pages, many found lightning in a box. And of course, profoundly misrepresented by those who disliked its unconventional message. The book was venerated and vilified, honored and hammered, loved and loathed. When the book first hit shelves, some described it as “a bomb dropped on the institutional church playground.” Soon afterward, a storm hit with biblical fury. As I write these words, Pagan Christianity?, coauthored with George Barna, will have been out for a decade. ![]()
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