Where were the earliest churches founded?

Have you ever noticed that the Bible gives us no clue as to what Jesus looked like? All our paintings of Jesus are merely the artist's idea of how he might have looked. The first representation of Christ on record is actually a derisive graffiti on the wall of a house on the Palatine Hill in Rome. read more

The first churches of course were found in Jerusalem and the surrounding environs. Within the first generations Christianity had penetrated and found footing in various communities of Jews living in diaspora notably in places like Edessa, Antioch, Alexandria, Damascus, numerous cities of Asia Minor, and Rome. read more

The persecutions were sporadic, with peaceful intervals in between. They varied in their intensity and were mostly localized. Just Get your Certificate! There were two all-out empire-wide persecutions intended to utterly destroy the church. The first, under the emperor Decius, began in December, 249. read more

The Christian church in Jerusalem was the center of the Christian faith. It was there that the apostles were first located. The church had elders with James, Jesus’ brother, being the lead elder of the church (Acts 15: 3-23). From there the truth about Jesus spread and God caused the Christian church to grow. read more