Hello, very dear members of the Church History audience! <333 I’m sure you’re all excited for this month’s Church History article, so here comes our title *drum roll please…* APOSTORIES!!!
Many people don’t realize this, but the conversion is actually a very interesting aspect of studying church history and is completely relevant to all subjects. After all, how did Martin Luther paint his thesis on the church door (before the Internet, I mean) if there was no transportation to get there?
So let’s get to the good stuff. In the early church, Christians often worshiped in their basements (did they have basements? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). House churches were the most common, and from ancient times people often attended a house that was a church. They may have ridden horses, donkeys, or similar animals, but they may have walked. Now in those days they wore shoes, so their feet were very dirty when they walked. Do you see how many people want to go to church? We can certainly learn from her example!!
In the Middle Ages, peasants continued to go to church, and since most people lived in small villages, it was usually not far. If they lived in villages and their distances were long, they could also use cars. The wealthy had fine bicycles and commonly used horses. At that time people had no experience of travel. Carts and carts were uneven and uncomfortable, walking was a burden, and horseback riding, cold as it was, gave a sharp rein for some time yet. I won’t discount it, but they still went to church! Isn’t it cute?!
Now we continue. Other great inventions of transportation are less relevant to our topic, such as canals, trains, or steamboats used by some people to go to church, but they are worth mentioning because they provided communication for people in different areas. This opened up opportunities that brought distinctly different religions together. Well, we got rid of the trains! Isn’t it interesting?
But then we finally get to what many call the crown jewel of transportation innovation: the automobile. Introduced by Henry Ford in 1907, the automobile replaced the horse in America within ten years!! In 1917, 5 million cars were registered and counted in America! You may have seen small families happily driving to work in Model-Ts!! While many people still used foot or horse-drawn carriages to travel short distances, the automobile became more and more useful.