Going To Church in the First Century: An Eyewitness Narrative of Early Christian Worship and Community Life

Not what you expect. This look inside a first-century meeting will make you rethink what (or who?) the church really is. "From a religious point of view the whole meeting left a lot to be desired. What had happened contained scarcely anything religious at all. They didn't even have a priest, let alone all the ritual that you expect. This wasn't quite what I had bargained for. Neither decently ritualistic nor exotically mysterious. All very simple and matter of fact."