text: Have you every read the Epistle to Diognetus...a non Christian writing about how early (early) Christians lived. Marvelous.  Very early writing.
  
  http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/diognetus-roberts.html
  
  
  “…They marry, as do all [others]; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring. They have a common table, but not a common bed. They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven. They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives. They love all men, and are persecuted by all…They are poor, yet make many rich…they are insulted, and repay the insult with honour; they do good, yet are punished as evil-doers. When punished, they rejoice as if quickened into life…"