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Pagan Christianity? Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Luther made preaching, rather than the Eucharist, the center of the gathering. 26 Accordingly, in the contemporary Protestant worship service, the pulpit, rather than the altar table, is the central element. 27 (The altar table is where the Eucharist is placed in Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal churches.) Luther gets the credit for making the sermon the climax of the Protestant service. 28 Read his words: “A Christian congregation should never gather together without the preaching of God’s Word
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