Nah...places built to further Christianity...people couldn't read but they could understand pictures on stained glass windows, could be taught using statuary, could be taught in an assembly listening to the word....and they were. For centuries, this is how the word was transmitted...and guess what...everybody knew what they were and respected them as houses of God, which they were.
Lucifer didn't like them at all, while the people were singing songs of praise and listening to the scriptures, they weren't falling under his spell...
You think vacant lots are better ?????
I have attended wonderful services in a brush arbor. If people go to church for the building, then they have the wrong attitude. Jesus did not do that.
I belonged to an RC church that had stained glass windows with Mohammad ,Walter Ruther,and Buddha
Wonder what that was teaching the unsaved there ?..Maybe all gods are equal ?
1 Cor6:6 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
Acts 7; 48"However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says: ...
Terycarl.. God does not live "in a church" ..He lives in THE CHURCH
Jesus is not locked up in your tabernacle ..subject to the whims of man.. He lives in His elect..