The first Christians were ordinary people

The first Christians were indistinguishable from their neighbors in their clothes, language, or neighborhood. They worked, married, and raised children like everyone else. And yet, within a few generations they infected an entire empire. A second-century text describes them with amazement: they live like others and yet they are "the soul of the world". Their secret was not a strategy: they lived differently on the inside, and it showed on the outside. In how they treated slaves and the sick, in how they loved one another, in how they worked, even in how they died. People did not convert through speeches, but through neighbors. It is the best possible news for you: you do not need a stage or a position. Your office, your classroom, and your doorway are the same playing field as ancient Rome.