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Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we "dress up" for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, choirs, and seminaries? This volume reveals the startling truth: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is not rooted in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. Coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence in the first-ever book to document the full story of modern Christian church practices. Many Christians take for granted that their church's practices are rooted in Scripture. Yet those practices look very different from those of the first-century church. The New Testament is not silent on how the early church freely expressed the reality of Christ's indwelling in ways that rocked the first-century world. Times have changed. Pagan Christianity leads us on a fascinating tour through church history, revealing this startling and unsettling truth: Many cherished church traditions embraced today originated not out of the New Testament, but out of pagan practices. One o

Who reads Pagan Christianity? : Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices?

Author

Frank Viola and George Barna

Publisher

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. : Made available through hoopla

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781414364551

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Christian

Rating

3.78 / 5 (2,007 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14