What Did Early Christian Worship Look Like? – OTJ Short

October 14, 2026 CHN Videos, OTJ Shorts

Look around any town, and you will find numerous churches of different denominations, each conducting their services differently on a Sunday morning.

Some of them observe a liturgical form in elaborate buildings; others are more free form with contemporary music in modern spaces; some meet in arenas, and others in homes.

But outside of the book of Acts, do we have any evidence from the first decades of Christianity that gives us an indication of how the first Christians worshipped?

Kenny Burchard looks at the Epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians, written in the first century, to see what clues it gives us into how the earliest Christians prayed and worshipped when they gathered on the Lord’s Day.

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