Earliest Christianity was known as The Way

First decades of what became world’s largest religion began with focus on sharing and healing

Pathway in Dienham, Germany. Image by Karsten Würth; licensed by Unsplash.

One simple and common Greek word reveals a surprising amount about what it meant to be a part of the faith in the earliest days of Christianity.

The word is hodos, which refers in its literal sense to a road or journey. It is typically translated as “way,” and like that English wor…