Is there a way to present the history of Christian worship in a blog? I was asked recently to summarize succinctly my understanding of the trajectory of worship over history and found it a helpful and thoroughly daunting task, one I thought appropriate for a blog. Detail has to be surrendered to overarching themes, yet those themes must reflect actual history in insightful ways. I found myself thinking of worship space, which led me to use architecture and the use of worship

“True religion is to have fellowship with the living God. That fellowship is richly enjoyed together 'with all the saints.' And the goal of all worship services must be to let the assembled congregation taste that fellowship with their God.”1 When Abraham Kuyper offers guidance in the early 20th century to the Dutch Reformed churches in Onze Eredienst, he addresses a specific subset of biblical worship, the Sunday morning gathering of God's people. He speaks of unrest in the