Earliest Christianity was known as The Way
First decades of what became world’s largest religion began with focus on sharing and healing
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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…