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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Not sure I agree, but I am not nor wish to claim to be an expert and accept the possibility of being wrong. Having is not a complete verb, it needs a complement to finish the action, and in this case its church.
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No. The verb "to have" can act as an "auxiliary verb", acting as part of another verb, eg "I have gone away on holiday" - in that case "have gone" is a past tense of the verb "to go". But it can also act as a "normal" verb, and that's the way it's being used in this case. In the sentence "we are having church here", "we" is the subject, "are having" is the verb, and "church" is its direct object.