The power of the New Testament church was lived in an authoritarian, government regime where most Jews had no rights, were unable to become citizens of Rome, and could not appeal to the court system or hire an attorney. They were taxed at 70% (heard that before?) and still tithed, were treated as slaves, silenced, canceled, and persecuted because of radical faith in a man named Jesus others said was dead, who they claimed was alive. Yet in the middle of that persecution, with