Scattered Coals: Unnamed Men Who Changed Church History

Alexander Maclaren observes that the greatest stride forward in the Church's development came not through official channels or celebrated apostles, but through obscure Cypriote and African Jews whose names have entirely perished from history. These unnamed men, bearing no vision, no command from Jerusalem, no precedent to guide them—only truth in their minds and the impulses of Christ's love in their hearts—solved the question that had vexed the apostles: whether salvation belonged to Gentiles.…