For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Our motivation rests in this: submission to authority is the strongest apologetic against the view that Christians are never up to any good. Certainly the first century showed that the bad behavior of some resulted in Christianity getting a bad name. One of Jesus’ own disciples was called “the Zealot” (Luke 6:15). Some went as far as sedition. In regard to morality, perhaps the word had spread