With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

On January 1st, 404, a monk from the Eastern province of the Roman Empire attended a gladiatorial

match in Rome.

Instead of watching the games, Tilemicus left into the arena, attempting to separate the

combatants.

The adorat, Bishop of Seeris, described the crowd that day as so filled with bloodlust,

they stoned the monk to death.

Other accounts say one of the gladiators stabbed him.

When word reached Emperor Anorius of the Tilemicus action, he declared Tilemicus a martyr,

and abolished the gladiatorial matches in Rome.

That was over 90 years after Christianity was made legal in Rome, though it might seem

shocking for blood sport to still be practiced in an empire made Christian for nearly a century,

it took time for the Christian understanding of human value to take root.

And it also took someone willing to live faith in a hostile moment.

It cost the Lemicus his life, but has martyred him save thousands and changed the course of

the world.

The Lemicus believed his faith demanded such action.

Hours does too.

But the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.