Early Christians became famous as a stunningly generous, loving family with no poor. They fed the poor, took in orphans and widows, and took care of anyone sick—even during pandemics. They ministered to everyone, whether Christian or not. They very strongly rejected all violence. Even when attacked in bloody spectacles at the coliseum, they refused to fight and sometimes even sang hymns.

Greeks and Romans viewed gods like forces of nature or like kings and queens with great superpowers. Jesus was a thrilling, relatable new kind of God—a simple peasant who suffered the agonizing pain and humiliation of crucifixion. Christianity saw everyone as equal in the Lord, with immense, divine human dignity, even women and slaves.

Author Chuck Falcon highlights how early Christians truly put the loving wisdom of Jesus into practice, drawing on early Christian traditions, Bible verses, the letters of Paul (the earliest historical evidence of Christian life, long before the gospels), the work of Bible scholars, the words of early Christian leaders, and the words of ancient historians about Christians.