Well, at Jesus´s time, they don´t have church but pray everywhere.
The Chrisitan "church" isn't a building or place. The full church of Jesus Christ is the full group of all Christian believers indwelt with the Holy Spirit, past and present. They meet in local "churches" for the purpose of worship and fellowship. They meet in local church buildings, houses, tents, auditoriums, rented rooms, parks, whatever. When people say church building, or church house, it means a building specifically built for church meetings. But without the Christian people meeting inside, it's just a building, nothing special.
During Jesus' lifetime on earth, the church hadn't yet been established. Jesus preached and taught whereever He could. Sometimes the crowds were too large to meet in a building, so they met outside. Sometimes Jesus was privately teaching His apostles, and they met in private homes. Sometimes when Jesus wanted to pray quietly, He went to a garden.
After Pentecost, when the church was established with the Holy Spirit, believers met in homes, in the woods, or wherever it was safe to meet. Much later, they began building meeting halls so they could all meet together in a place protected from the weather.
The early settlers of American usually built meeting halls or houses that served more than one purpose. The buildings were used for worship services, school, town meetings, etc.
So, even when the church people met almost 2,000 years ago, Christ was head of the church, same as today.
When I refer to "my" church or "our" church, I'm referring to the local membership. Each local membership is a local "church" group. All local Christian churches combined with all individual believers who are scattered around the world, are "
the church (body)" of Christ.
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Colossians 1:18
And he
[Christ] is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
1 Corinthians 12:12-26
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For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
