What were churches like in Bible times compared to churches today?
In Bible times, churches were small assemblies that met in homes, not large congregations with grand buildings. By contrast, people today often picture churches of several hundred or several thousand people with great big beautiful buildings, but that was not the church of the Scriptural days.
Les explains that after all the sufferings, beatings, imprisonments, and shipwrecks, the Gospel was taken to people who had never heard it. They were established in it, and churches were established, but not large ones. Les says people today too often think of churches with several hundred or several thousand people and great big beautiful buildings. That was not the church of the Scriptural days. Instead, they were just small assemblies meeting in homes. He also points to II Timothy chapter 1, verses 15-16, where all they who were in Asia turned away from him, which was a heartache for the man.