Imagine trying to have a sermon on the mount...
Draft EIS, permits, parking, porta potties, etc.
You want to feed the crowd what? Loaves and fishes? Are these being handled by state licensed caterers? The Health Department needs to inspect the facilities, WHAT!!!??? Baskets! Are you nuts?
Just stay calm, buddy, you're who? ('Louie, better call for backup, we've got a live one here.')
Unfortunately, in our wonderfully (/sarc) civilized world, things have been a tad overcomplicated, by popular demand.
It helps to have a building.
Unfortunately, in our wonderfully (/sarc) civilized world, things have been a tad overcomplicated, by popular demand.
It helps to have a building."
Okay, that is funny. But, whether a building is necessary is still not cleared up. The gatherings of believers in the first century were in homes (Prisc & Aquila Rom. 16:5), in caves, in graveyards, in market places (Acts 17:22), by river banks (Acts 16:13). When did we get the order to sanitize the assembling together?