Tuesday; May 25
When the early church began to influence the world, there were basically two types of people who made up the unified body of Christ. One of the groups came out of Judaism. They were a monotheistic people who had lived by many of the moral principles that would be incorporated into the Christian church. While some of their thought-processes needed to be adjusted to accept the coming of the Messiah, their transition was probably pretty smooth. The others came out of the Gentile people, many of whom had grown up in the pagan Roman world. They had grown up in a poly-theistic society in the midst of the worship of Caesar as emperor and deity. These folks probably had a much different adjustment process, but may have more easily understood the call to be sanctified from the world. As the Apostle Peter wrote to the early church he observed, “For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, dru