Gottesblog

I have always found it highly significant that when Christians first show up in the pagan literature, they appear as singing. The year was approximately 112 A.D. Pliny the Younger, serving as the Roman governor in Pontus and Bithynia wrote to the Emperor for guidance about what to do with the Christians. When he describes their practice he says this: “they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god.”