Mike Gerson and Pete Wehner consider what lessons today's faithful can learn from first century Christians' engagement with government

Pete Wehner and Mike Gerson go on Focus on the Family's Daily radio show to talk about how early Christians engaged government, which they cover in their book The City of Man.

The early church demonstrates the "paradox of Christian involvement in the world," Gerson says, in how early Christians took care to improve the welfare of even those ordinary Romans ignored, and yet they were persecuted because they didn't bow their knees to the Emperor. They took care of the sick as plagues swept through the empire, and yet they were strangely detached from Rome because they didn't expect the state to achieve what was the business of the Kingdom of God.