Note 12 at Col. 4:15: This is the only mention of Nymphas in scripture. The name meant "given, or born." The use of the word "his" in this same sentence reveals that this was a male name. One of the church groups met in his house.

Note 13 at Col. 4:15: For the first three hundred years of church history Christians met and worshiped in homes (Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. 16:19; Phile. 2). When Constantine founded the city of Conststantinople in A.D. 323 he commissioned a building to be built for Christians to meet in. This was similar to the pagan temples of that day. This ushered in a massive church building program all over the Roman Empire. Constantine ordered these building to be named after one of the Christians in the New Testament. This changed Christianity from the way it had previously been known. Many unbelievers were now worshiping with the Christians. The house church meetings were soon to become only a memory.

It will have to be conceded that the Lord has used the church building structure to bring millions of people to Himself. But it is less clear that this was ever the intent of the Lord to meet in this manner.