Tyler O’Neil on how Christians saved lives and spread the gospel during Roman plagues of the second and third centuries
Christians facing the coronavirus today would do well to remember how the selfless love of the early church helped spread the gospel in a world much more hostile to Jesus’ message than our world is today.
Christianity spread in the face of persecution for many reasons, but in two cases it spread in the midst of deadly plagues – because Christians risked their lives to save others.