The Barefoot Evangelist

Week One: Before There Were Walls

This week we asked a slightly dangerous question: What did church look like before it had buildings, budgets, and bulletins?

Acts 2 gives us a glimpse – people devoted to teaching, eating together, praying, sharing resources, and actually knowing one another. It wasn’t polished. It wasn’t scheduled into neat 60 or 75-minute blocks. It was shared life.

We also poked gently at some of our favourite church words – sacrament, liturgy, bishop, deacon – and remembered that once upon a time they were things people did, not labels they wore. Practice came first. Vocabulary caught up later.

No, we’re not burning down institutions. We’re just asking whether faith might be sturdier than walls.

If church is more than a place we go, Week One is where we start noticing how.