I’m reading this new book by James Tabor — Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity.
From page 131: “One of my professors in graduate school at the University of Chicago once told us, ‘If you had a time machine and traveled back to Greece in the first century A.D., dropping in to observe a gathering of a cell group of Paul’s followers meeting in Corinth, don’t assume you would have even the slightest idea of what was going on.'”