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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, choirs, and SEMInaries? This volume reveals the startling truth: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is not rooted in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. Co-authors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence in the first-ever book to document the full story of modern Christian church practices. Many Christians take for granted that their churches practices are rooted in Scripture. Yet those practices look very different from those of the first-century church. The New Testament is not silent on how the early church freely expressed the reality of Christ's indwelling in ways that rocked the first-century world. Times have changed. Pagan Christianity leads us on a fascinating tour through church history, revealing this startling and unsettling truth: Many cherished church traditions embraced today originated not out of the New Testament, but out of pagan practices. One of the most troubling outcomes has been the effect on average believers: turning them from living expressions of Christs glory and power to passive observers. If you want to see that trend reversed, turn to Pagan Christianity...a book that examines and challenges every aspect of our contemporary church experience.

About the Author :
Frank Viola is a bestselling author and popular conference speaker. He writes and speaks on the uniqueness, beauty, and supremacy of Jesus Christ, the deeper Christian life, and the changing shape of Christianity today. His blog, Beyond Evangelical, is one of the most popular Christian blogs today. He has written for or contributed interviews to many popular publications, including Time, Christianity Today, Charisma, Ministry Today, Relevant, and CBN. George Barna is the bestselling author of more than forty books, which have won a variety of awards and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Founder of the Barna Group, a leading research firm focused on the intersection of faith and culture, he currently leads the faith development ministry Metaformation and is also a founding director of the Strategenius Group, a business development and marketing firm. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Ventura, California. Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others.

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"Pagan Christianity? contains a wide variety of interesting and helpful historical information of which most Christians--or non-Christians--will be completely unaware. The book identifies--in part or in whole--the pagan roots of many of our current church practices, as well as indicates some borrowed from earlier Jewish or, occasionally, more recent customs." -- "Robert Banks, New Testament scholar and author of Paul's Idea of Community and The Church Comes Home" "Pagan Christianity? is a landmark, a true milestone in the overall task of bringing in a new style of responsible, interactive Christianity to replace the old, severely paganized ecclesiastical forms. Frank has done us a great favor, drawing together revealing tidbits from hundreds of sources to create a continuous picture of the formation of today's institutional church. There's nothing like it in print. It is now the book on church history from the point of view of the underground, open church." -- "James Rutz, author of Megashift and The Open Church" "Most contemporary Christians are massively ignorant as to how the church got to where it is today and of how much current church practice is due simply to accumulated tradition, with little or no roots in scripture. This book provides a useful service in peeling back the layers of tradition, showing the origins of much that we today call 'church.' Christians who want to be biblically faithful, regardless of their particular tradition or church form, can learn and benefit from the book." -- "Howard Snyder, professor of history and theology of mission, Asbury Theological Seminary; author of The Problem of Wineskins and The Community of the King" "This feisty book attacks the incipient paganism that has been absorbed into historic Christianity over the years. It exposes the syncretistic weak spots in what we assume to be basic in our way of doing church. Thoroughly iconoclastic, it is also at the same time a good apologetic for the house church movement which has strong restorationist impulses. My guess is that it will anger some readers and thrill others. I am one of the latter. Whatever, it won't be too easy to dismiss as it is really well researched and substantiated...Definitely worth the read...Just don't drop it--it is likely to explode." -- "Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways and The Shaping of Things to Come"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798200488544
  • Publisher: Christianaudio
  • Publisher Imprint: Christianaudio
  • Height: 145 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8200488543
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2008
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices


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