There is a difference between the NT church and todays

…a large gap has clearly opened up in the two thousand years between the teaching of the NT and what we customarily do in church Sunday by Sunday.

~Mark Ashton in Worship by the Book, Carson, ed. 69



D. A. Carson says we cannot go back to the NT church meeting style:

…what would happen if we could somehow put all out histories and traditions to one side and begin from scratch and then tried to label and speak of our corporate life, judging only the terminology and theology of the NT. I take his point — but that is precisely what we cannot do.

~ Don Carson, Worship by the Book, 62