The Catholic Church has been around for nearly two-thousand years. If you have to go back that far to find an example where the church wasn't in a position of power and influence, you're more or less making my point.

That aside, the Catholic Church has little in common with the early church.

The early church were pockets of believers that rose up organically throughout Mediterranean world via the ministry of the apostles and their disciples. This early church didn't have an organizational structure with doctrines and a hierarchy determined by church politics. Most of this came later with the "Romanization" of Christianity, which only increased exponentially with Constantine's legalization of Christianity following the persecution of the first three centuries.

In many respects the early church had far more in common with modern Evangelicals, with their small in-home church groups and narrow focus on Jesus and the Bible, than the modern Catholic Church which has centuries worth of doctrines and traditions that have little-to-nothing to do with Christianity in it's original form.

The Catholic Church has been around for nearly two-thousand years. If you have to go back that far to find an example where the church wasn't in a position of power and influence, you're more or less making my point.

That aside, the Catholic Church has little in common with the early church.

The early church were pockets of believers that rose up organically throughout Mediterranean world via the ministry of the apostles and their disciples. This early church didn't have an organizational structure with doctrines and a hierarchy determined by church politics. Most of this came later with the "Romanization" of Christianity, which only increased exponentially with Constantine's legalization of Christianity following the persecution of the first three centuries.

In many respects the early church has far more in common with modern Evangelicals, with their small in-home church groups and narrow focus on Jesus and the Bible, than the modern Catholic Church which has centuries worth of doctrines and traditions that have little-to-nothing to do with Christianity in it's original form.

The Catholic Church has been around for nearly two-thousand years. If you have to go back that far to find an example where the church wasn't influential, you're more or less making my point.

That aside, the Catholic Church has little in common with the early church.

The early church were pockets of believers that rose up organically throughout Mediterranean world via the ministry of the apostles and their disciples. This early church didn't have an organizational structure with doctrines and a hierarchy determined by church politics. Most of this came later with the "Romanization" of Christianity, which only increased exponentially with Constantine's legalization of Christianity following the persecution of the first three centuries.

In many respects the early church has far more in common with modern Evangelicals, with their small in-home church groups and narrow focus on Jesus and the Bible, than the modern Catholic Church which has centuries worth of doctrines and traditions that have little-to-nothing to do with Christianity in it's original form.

The Catholic Church has little in common with the early church.

The early church were pockets of believers that rose up organically throughout Mediterranean world via the ministry of the apostles and their disciples. This early church didn't have an organizational structure with doctrines and a hierarchy determined by church politics. Most of this came later with the "Romanization" of Christianity, which only increased exponentially with Constantine's legalization of Christianity following the persecution of the first three centuries.

In many respects the early church has far more in common with modern Evangelicals, with their small in-home church groups and narrow focus on Jesus and the Bible, than the modern Catholic Church which has centuries worth of doctrines and traditions that have little-to-nothing to do with Christianity in it's original form.