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Hardcover Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices Book

ISBN: 141431485X

ISBN13: 9781414314853

Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

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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, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is rooted, not 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 and extensive footnotes that document the origins of modern Christian church practices. In the process, the authors uncover the problems that emerge when the church functions more like a business organization than the living organism it was created to be. As you reconsider Christ's revolutionary plan for his church--to be the head of a fully functioning body in which all believers play an active role--you'll be challenged to decide whether you can ever do church the same way again. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Customer Reviews

14 customer ratings | 7 reviews

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Feel like normal church isn't giving you enough? Read this book! I saw so much wrong with the church and this book really gave me words for all I was experiencing! The church will remain dead, unless we go back to the church seen in the book of acts. The real church! Where the people are the church not the building run by leaders!

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Every church going person needs to read this book.....

This book explains perfectly where most of the things in Christianity originate from. This book will have you begin to really think about things. Most of the things we do in the church has pagan origins and these two fellas expose it all with references and documention. Would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the truth and has an open mind, unbiased, accepting facts as they are, will benefit greatly from...

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Spiritual Revolution Instead of Religious Reformation

"Pagan Christianity? Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices," may very well be the most important book written on the Christian church in the last two millennia. Frank Viola and George Barna team up to give their readers a critical examination of the last 1700 years of church history. Does the institutional church have any biblical and historical right to exist? "Are the practices of the institutional church (the clergy/laity...

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For those willing to 'take the red pill'

Is today's Church into a revolution that will someday be understood as greater than the 16th Century Protestant Reformation? Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola and George Barna will certainly add fuel to the fire of those affirming so. Most evangelicals would consider such a suggestion as absurd, or at best, exaggerated. Yet, undeniably, there is a grass roots revolution taking place on a global scale in Christendom about...

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Don't read this book if you are happy in a church pew!

Tyndale is known for publishing Christian books and has shown a daring initiative in publishing this book that questions traditional church practices. In the publisher's preface we read `Tyndale does not necessarily agree with all of the author's positions and realises that some readers may not either. At the same time, we stand united with Frank and George in our desire to see the church operate according to biblical principles...

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