Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries (Biblia.com)

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In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline...

continue to believe in Jesus, just a lesser Jesus, not the martyrs’ Jesus but Porphyry’s Jesus, one god among many gods. But at least some refused, for they believed that Jesus truly was the Son of God and the only way to God. As Pliny complained to the Emperor Trajan, Christians were obstinate, which in his mind was reason enough to punish them. But that obstinacy was rooted in a conviction; Christians believed that Jesus was Savior and Lord.38 Christians still die for

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