early church

Before the apostles preached and the early church gathered, before Rome legalized Christianity or the creeds were written, something else had been quietly unfolding—a cultural shift that would shape the world Jesus stepped into. In this opening post of our Church History series, we explore how the conquests of Alexander the Great and the spread of Hellenistic culture created the conditions for the message of Jesus to take root and eventually reshape the world. The rise of early Christianity didn’t happen in a vacuum. It happened “in the fullness of time”—and understanding that time helps us see the Gospel more clearly.