Going to Synagogue

If you are coming around these emergent parts, chances are good you have questioned from time to time what this whole church thing should look like. You know, why does anybody do what they do in their church services. (Does anyone else hate the word services?)

How did we get here? Why do so many churches put a lecture at the center of worshiping God?

Travel back in time, say nearly 2000 years ago, and the emerging first century church folk are pretty radical compared to what was in existence. Before the house churches the place to "go to church" was the Synagogue. Imagine the tension that existed.

But how did the Synagogue come to be?

Wade Hodges has more on this.