The idea of “going back to the early church” isn’t new. It’s been done by many sects of Christianity. An underlying problem with this approach is the innate tendency of humans to idealize a time, era, or people group and assign them and their ways a level of virtue and purity that they never really exemplified. The book of acts and all of the epistles demonstrate the very imperfect state and nature of Christian’s and Christianity from the very beginning of the apostolic era.
