I always enjoy your history lessons and the timelines that you show us. I know that it probably takes several hours of research and then production to give us these short 5 minute snippets of Amish history, so I am very appreciative of your time & effort. I am probably "preaching to the choir", here, but the meeting places for the early Christians were usually in one of the homes of one of the believers. And we know that the word 'church' does not mean the building, but means the believers who gather together to worship God and study the Bible. A group of believers could meet in a cave or on a hillside or anywhere else, and they would be 'having church'. What I find most disturbing today are the huge mega-churches that have thousands of members. Too many times, the pastors and 'church leaders' are more concerned about the next building program and having to hire expensive accountants and tax lawyers, and the 'pastors' living in luxury and flying in their own private luxury jets, than in attending to their flock and teaching all of the Bible and not cherry picking a few verses to support their own agendas. The Amish have the right attitude and idea about "church". And unlike so many main-stream Christian churches today, they are not controlled by the clock on the wall. Sunday church is the Lord's day and He and the believers should be allowed time to enjoy being together and being of "one spirit".
I always appreciate your input...You make an excellent point! CHURCH is the PEOPLE! Another good point is that religion is man made...I think a 4 hour service would deter a lot of "church" goers LOL
@@LivingThatSimpleLife ...Thank you for your kind words. Yes, "religion" is man made. Sometimes when I am discussing the Bible with someone, I will say that Jesus was not religious. You should see their initial reaction: They are stunned: Their eyes fly open, their mouths drop open and they look like I have blasphemed and they look like they are going to stone me...!! I then explain that Jesus came here to show us the way to Truth and the way back to God, and teach us a little bit about the Spiritual realm and about the Holy Spirit. So-called 'religion' has nothing to do with it. Thankfully, there were no rocks available...lol..!!
And their church service can be over 4 hours. Only speaking on my experiences in homles and Wayne ohio. Also, horse pulls the pews, well, benches, in a special cart.
Luther was not a Bishop. He at first was a monk, and then a priest. The early Christians in the 1st and 2nd centuries met in homes or synagogues where the Rabbi had become a believer in Christ. In 325 A.D. Emporer Constantine built the first Cathedral in the city named after him, Constantinople. In the 7th century, Islam conquered the city, renamed it Istanbul, and converted the church into a Mosque. It is Biblical to meet in buildings called Chapels or Bible halls. The word church meant people gathering to worship, not buildings. That changed over the centuries. Today it usually means buildings.
Thank you so much for the clarification and added information! I hate that "church" today means building...things could be so different if we all understood that it is meant to mean believers!
There are the "Church" Amish and there are "House" Amish. The House Amish do not build churches! They meet in members homes on a rotating basis. Hauling benches from house to house. Their homes all have a large, open area on the first floor. And regular furnishings are moved aside to make way for the benches!
Like any religion...splits happen,...rules change...It has to be very difficult to try to hold on to a plain life ...Thank you for your additional information!
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I always enjoy your history lessons and the timelines that you show us. I know that it probably takes several hours of research and then production to give us these short 5 minute snippets of Amish history, so I am very appreciative of your time & effort.
I am probably "preaching to the choir", here, but the meeting places for the early Christians were usually in one of the homes of one of the believers. And we know that the word 'church' does not mean the building, but means the believers who gather together to worship God and study the Bible. A group of believers could meet in a cave or on a hillside or anywhere else, and they would be 'having church'.
What I find most disturbing today are the huge mega-churches that have thousands of members. Too many times, the pastors and 'church leaders' are more concerned about the next building program and having to hire expensive accountants and tax lawyers, and the 'pastors' living in luxury and flying in their own private luxury jets, than in attending to their flock and teaching all of the Bible and not cherry picking a few verses to support their own agendas.
The Amish have the right attitude and idea about "church". And unlike so many main-stream Christian churches today, they are not controlled by the clock on the wall. Sunday church is the Lord's day and He and the believers should be allowed time to enjoy being together and being of "one spirit".
I always appreciate your input...You make an excellent point! CHURCH is the PEOPLE! Another good point is that religion is man made...I think a 4 hour service would deter a lot of "church" goers LOL
@@LivingThatSimpleLife ...Thank you for your kind words. Yes, "religion" is man made. Sometimes when I am discussing the Bible with someone, I will say that Jesus was not religious. You should see their initial reaction: They are stunned: Their eyes fly open, their mouths drop open and they look like I have blasphemed and they look like they are going to stone me...!! I then explain that Jesus came here to show us the way to Truth and the way back to God, and teach us a little bit about the Spiritual realm and about the Holy Spirit. So-called 'religion' has nothing to do with it. Thankfully, there were no rocks available...lol..!!
And their church service can be over 4 hours. Only speaking on my experiences in homles and Wayne ohio. Also, horse pulls the pews, well, benches, in a special cart.
I'm not so sure I could do 4 hours...that is dedication for sure!
@@LivingThatSimpleLife especially hard as a smoker 😂 and only understand parts of it, I know some dutch but not enough
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Luther was not a Bishop. He at first was a monk, and then a priest.
The early Christians in the 1st and 2nd centuries met in homes or synagogues where the Rabbi had become a believer in Christ. In 325 A.D. Emporer Constantine built the first Cathedral in the city named after him, Constantinople. In the 7th century, Islam conquered the city, renamed it Istanbul, and converted the church into a Mosque.
It is Biblical to meet in buildings called Chapels or Bible halls. The word church meant people gathering to worship, not buildings. That changed over the centuries. Today it usually means buildings.
Thank you so much for the clarification and added information! I hate that "church" today means building...things could be so different if we all understood that it is meant to mean believers!
There are the "Church" Amish and there are "House" Amish.
The House Amish do not build churches! They meet in members homes on a rotating basis. Hauling benches from house to house. Their homes all have a large, open area on the first floor. And regular furnishings are moved aside to make way for the benches!
Like any religion...splits happen,...rules change...It has to be very difficult to try to hold on to a plain life ...Thank you for your additional information!
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