“Where’s the Church?”

Acts 28: 22: “But we desire to hear from you what your views are; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.” We know that there had been a decent-sized Church in Rome for some time, for Paul had written it a letter several years before, and some of them had met Paul upon his arrival in the Eternal City. Yet these leading Jews seemed to know nothing of them, nor of their message. But we shouldn’t criticize; does today’s church have a more effective impact in our communities than the Romans of that time?