4. (a) Whom does God use to preach his message? (b) What effect does his choosing of such persons have on the wise ones of the world?

⁴ “For you behold his calling of you, brothers, that not many wise in a fleshly way were called, not many powerful, not many of noble birth;

1 Corinthians 1:26

8. (a) From what level of society did the majority of early Christians come? (b) Yet what effect did their preaching have on the worldly-wise?

⁸ What about early Christians? A professor of history wrote: “Most of the early Christians were persons of humble origin, coming from the lower levels of the artisan-merchant class of the large cities.” (The Ancient World, by Joseph W. Swain) Christ’s first-century followers were indeed ordinary persons, a fact that their enemies called attention to. (Acts 4:13; John 7:48)