History: The Early Christians [33-500AD]

The Age of Persecution [AD200 - 325]

In the year 250AD, Christians experienced the most systematic persecution to date under the Roman Emperor Decius. This marked the start of the most tumultuous 50 years in the Early Church. It was an age of pandemics, imperial civil war, and suffering. Meanwhile, in Syria, a small community is worshipping in a house-church in the imperial city of Dura-Europos. To this day, the Church at Dura-Europos is the earliest archeological discovery of a Church building – it has the earliest baptistry we’ve discovered and some of the first Christian art ever created. Join us in this video as we get a glimpse of a 3rd century Syrian baptism service and walk through the Age of Persecution.