What Have the Romans Ever Done for us?

"But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"- Monty Python's The Life of Brian


What HAVE the Romans done for us? During our discussion in class, we mentioned that Paul was a Roman citizen, but more than that, that he knew how to use that citizenship to his advantage. What does this mean exactly? Simply put, the Romans took care of their citizens. Once you were ah...assimilated into Rome, you became a citizen, and you had all of the rights that citizenship entailed. Rome did not just conquer a town and leave it to fend for itself, no. Rome cared for its citizens, and that, in essence, is what made Rome so great.

What have the Romans done for us? They gave us a basis for how to treat those that belong to our nation, and, whats more, the basis of how we should treat each other as Christians. As Christians, we can't just assimilate others into Christianity and then expect them to fend for themselves. We must, like the Romans, offer new Christians 'citizenship'. For, without guidance, we would not be taking care of our 'people'.

Paul knew how to use the fact that Romans took care of their citizens to his advantage, he knew that if he was in trouble he could call on his people and they would be there for him to help him our of whatever mess he had gotten into. Can we, as Christians, say that our 'citizens' could do the same?

P.S.-- I commented on Kelsey's blog a Final Word.

P.P.S--Sorry this is late, I honestly just forgot about the blog.