Text Us here! (Leave your phone number!) What made the early church so powerful? Before a single New Testament document existed, a small band of disciples had already "turned the world upside down." Their secret wasn't elaborate theology or complex structures, but a simple, life-changing message: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again. This message carried such power because it came from eyewitnesses. They had watched Jesus suffer through crucifixion—a historical fact so establ...