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The churches founded by the apostles had no mass, no priests, no 7 sacraments ,no holy water, no statues etc...no the church of the NT was no Roman.

{Not directed at you personally just a general comment} Services were held in homes, The Gospel was preached in public in the streets, in public forums, before leaders in official chambers, in prisons, on a Chariot with an Ethiopian official, a few times in Temples. Not a one Disciple nor Apostle is recorded as being called father, rabbi, nor is recorded to have taken on priestly titles, holding ritualistic ceremonies beyond observance of Communion.

We also see John rebuked by angels {simply told not to bow before them} who were talking to him in Revelation chapters 19 & 22 As well Acts ch 10 v 26 Peter tells Cornelius to stand up "I am a human being like you".

The Apostle Paul didn't write a huge book of laws on behaviors and standards of conduct required in church and expected standards of leaders and how services were to be conducted. He didn't write out you will say these words each day you meet, you will wear robes, you will take persons into booths for their confessions. He wrote a few simple chapters. That should suffice for any church and keep any church in line with GOD's Will.

Jesus Christ told us how we should pray to GOD. Go to where you can be left alone in secret no distractions and pray to The Father in secret. IOW you talk to Him not recite a prayer over and over. Yes that is in scripture as well. After His ascending into Heaven to The Father Christ made this even more easier. He sent us an Intercessor dwelling within us to minister to us, to interceded for us when our own words fail us, & to free us of the corrupt hold The Priest of the day held on men. Jesus Christ is our Priest, Our Pope, Our Savior. He can handle it all and He can hear us all. Can we and should we pray for each other? Yes. The living in mortal bodies should pray for each other. The departed mortal bodies have been separated from this world. Not even Abraham could intercede.

The beginning of Christianity as in physical location was Jerusalem that was never rescinded but Christianity is everywhere it is recieved and accepted then followed. No place hold claim as the center for the center is our own hearts toward Jesus Christ. Man may have tried to set up a church government in Rome but Rome has not replaced Jerusalem nor the Sons of Israel. Nor have mans writs. The denomination of the Disciples and Apostles? Why the were Believers and followers Jesus Christ of Course :>}