1 Corinthians 16:19
1 Corinthians 16:1919The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.
The Watchtower acknowledges Aquila and Priscilla as first-century Christians but does not emphasise the verse's implication for early church architecture: the congregation "in their house." Meeting locations in the first century are generally not pressed because the Watchtower needs a model in which a central organisation dictates meeting structure — the house-church pattern of the NT is in tension with the Kingdom Hall model and the annual assembly programme.
is a data point in the NT picture of how first-century Christians actually met: in homes. Pair with , , and — house churches, not purpose-built meeting halls, not central programmes, not uniform Watchtower-directed content. Use alongside the argument at the door: "Paul's own closing greeting in 1 Corinthians 16 is from the congregation IN a house. The New Testament pattern is small, organic, local fellowship — not mandatory attendance at a centrally-programmed building. The Watchtower reads 'meetings' back into , but what the apostles actually describe is much closer to what Protestants call a home group than to Kingdom Hall programming."