CHURCH MEETING PLACES

 

House to House

  • Acts 2:46 “And they continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house.”
  • Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”
  • Acts 8:3 “Some made havoc of the church, entering into every house and haling men and women committed them to prison.”
  • Acts 20:20 “Paul taught publicly, and from house to house.”

 

One House (Approximately 28 references)

  • Romans 16:3 “Greet the church that is in their house (Pricilla and Aquila).”
  • Romans 16:23 “Gaius, mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you.”
  • Colossians 4:15 “The church which is in his(Nymphas)house.”
  • Philemon 1:2 “The church is thy house (Philemon).”

 

Borrowed Public Places

Solomon’s Porch

  • Acts 2:46 “And they continued daily with one accord in the temple.”
  • Acts 3:11 “Gathered unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s.”
  • Acts 5:12 “They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.”
  • Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”
  • Acts 21:26-30 “And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and took Paul and drew him out of the temple: and forth with the doors were shut.”

Synagogues

  • Acts 9:20 “Paul preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.”
  • Acts 13:5 “They (Barnabas and Saul) preached the
  • Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.”
  • Acts 18:6-7 “(Corinth) And Paul reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath.  And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, Paul shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; Iam clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.  And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.”

School

  • Acts 19:9-10 “When divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, Paul departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus (hall, school room, room in a house).  And this continue by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus.”

 

Hired House

  • Acts 28:30-31 “And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired(rented, leased)house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”

 

Market Place

  • Acts 17:17 “In the market daily with them they met with Paul.”

 

 

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