For the first Christians, recorded in the New Testament, the actual time or place getting together didn't matter. To them no building was sacred - just a space to be used.
Jesus had said before he left that whenever two or three gathered in His name he would be there. People would eat and drink, both socially and as a symbol (sometimes called the Lord's Supper or Communion) they would worship God and tell stories about Jesus. As a marginalised and persecuted group they had to depend on each other for everything - possessions were shared and the weak were protected by the stronger. It was a genuine community. It was church.
Our aim at Bar None is to plant ourselves back in the heart of a community, to bar none that are looking for answers or a place to ask questions. Pubs by definition are public space, they feel inhabitable and unpretentious, a quality that, unfortunately, is not shared by many churches.
ACTS
2:42-47They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
(NIV)