Session 3 The Persecution

Summary:
The persecution of the early church was started by the Jews but then moved to Rome. Rome eventually became the source of persection. The dates of the persecution in Rome are 60 A.D- 320A.D. They are not constent years of persection or always constent but there was some intense times and some times of peace. I really like how how the Mr. Calhoun goes into all the reasons for the persection and then he states that the christians who did give into persection are apostate. They denied Christ and that is a major deal even in times of extreme hardship.

Questions:
It was said that christians began to want to be persecuted, where is the balance between wanting to stand up for your faith but not out to try and be killed for it? how do your correct someone who wants to just go die for Christ?

What benefits do you think that persecution would have in America today? Would it help christianity or would it extiguish it here?

One of the charges against christians was the "hatred of human race," how do we show we love people outside but keep fellowship in the church the priority? Today it is seen that peoples best friends aren't even Christians. How do we get people to hold the Christian brothers to a family like relationship?