Praetorians

[Brad Fox]

They were the toughest, baddest warriors of their time. Think Darth. Think Hitler's SS corps. Seal Team 6.  All about the black uniforms, huh? Yet the Apostle Paul, while being guarded by them in jail, was able to reach out to them and bring them them God's peace and understanding. As he wrote in one of his letters to a Greek church he started, God's Good News was reaching the people of Rome through his own suffering, and that the whole Praetorian guard knew and respected his motivation to do God's work. Many of his Christian friends, inspired by his boldness with these tough soldiers were themselves emboldened to speak up and act for the common good in a society gone mad. Christians didn't flee a society gone over the edge; they worked to restore it. Within 300 years, their faith in God was the glue that held the empire together and tried to restore it.