RE:Simon Says
(Date Posted:10/09/2008 02:23:21)
........... Consider, the church at Corinth that Paul wrote two rather long and important letters to, was comprised of between 50 and 70 people in total. Not a particularly large number. The church at Philippi had about 30 members. The church at Ephesus comprised approximately 80 members. All of these churches were very, very small by western standards! In point of fact, there was no single fellowship that comprised more than 100 members during the first 250-300 years of the Church's history, the same period of time when Christianity basically "exploded" throughout the Roman Empire!
Hi Ian, I am interested in what source you aquired above information.  I have done quite a bit of searching and reading of the seven locations of the early church(s) and found it quite interesting to see what they were like in those ancient times. Ralph
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Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge others accurately?
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