deacons, or even Bible study teachers. However, in the early church, evangelism was correctly understood as the duty of every Christian. It was the everyday Christian who went out proclaiming the word of God. It was the everyday worker who died a martyrs' death. Every Christian recognized the seriousness of the issue - every soul without Christ would go to hell. Thus, they employed every strategy they could think of to persuade man. Perhaps today, we may criticize a few of their practices, and even rightly critique some of their views on the sacraments, yet let us bow our head in shame in light of the zeal they had in proclaiming the gospel of Christ. It is through God's sovereign work through these early "fearless" Christians that the gospel has spread all over the world today. We are forever indebted to these early Christians, and Green shows us what they did to deserve such honor. You will find no other book like this on the market right now. Green does an incredable job at looking at the early church at multiple angles. The secondary material he uses to study what the church was like, how it was viewed both inside and outside the church, and many other angles is pretty amazing - I had to keep one thumb in the end notes so I could refer to them often. I am a person that doesn't just want to know linearly what is happening, but wants to know the whole picture