Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. (Luke 24:35) The oldest account of ancient churchgoing describes the first Christian community in Jerusalem as devoted to “the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the prayers” (Acts 2:42). We lack the details of these elements, but one thing in particular is surprising, relative to more recent patterns of worship: Christians