What is the New Testament’s view of social life?

First : In the New Testament, God addresses the believer as one who is mature, granting him an adaptable mentality and a pure inner life in order to carry out his social work based on the needs of the contemporary age in a faithful, practical, and realistic spirit . And it is from here that we find in the writings of the early Church Fathers (since the era of the Apostolic Fathers) an evolution in social work, but within the same unchangeable faith as their mentality was alive and firm, but constantly adapted to the needs of the current age.

Second : St. John Chrysostom defined the Church as “ the new life ,” where the believer experiences the work of God, the loving Father, for all humankind through the salvation

1110 Origen, Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 (FOTC 97:87).

1111 Johannes Quasten, Patrology, Volume II (Christian Classics, 1983): p. 82.

offered by the incarnate Word of God on the Cross, and the work of the Holy Spirit that transforms us into living icons of Christ.

It is difficult for us to define the social life of the early Church as if it were isolated from the spiritual, cultural, or other areas of life; it is a single integrated line and a unified life experience. There is no separation between a Christian’s relationship with God and his relationship with humankind. There is no separation between the believer’s spiritual growth and his academic growth, or between sanctifying his soul and mind and sanctifying the body, senses, and emotions.