True zeal must begin from where the audience is and then proceed to bring it further. We find Saint Paul doing exactly this in his speech at Athens.47 The church was compelled to provide an overarching canvass into which her beliefs about God and Christ could fit. Hostile critics both then and now wished to treat Christianity as a religion intended solely for the simple and ill-educated, with a motto of ‘Only believe’. Jesus himself was brought up as a carpenter; his closest followers were fisherman.