Article September 25, 1989 Issue

SECOND THOUGHT

Looking again at news and commentary

R. D. DeBlois Wright

The Napanee and District Weekly Guide

From The Napanee and District Weekly Guide, Ontario, Canada

"Why was the Christian Church of the first century of Christianity such a powerful transforming force? Was it not because it was so amazingly different from the society in which it was working? ...

"Tertullian states that he and most of the converts who came out of paganism in his day were won to Christ not by books or arguments of great theologians but by observing how Christians lived and died. The early Christians were able to pass on their faith to the generations that followed them in due succession because the new generation saw in the old something worthy of imitation....

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