The Kingdom of God begins in the will of the individual who remains growing in self-government. It was this self-government that allowed the Christians to be able to go through persecution, suffering ridicule, beatings, incarceration and being treated as the worst of the worst in society, many were made to be a spectacle to entertain the masses as they were torn to death by different means. These Christians demonstrated how victorious they were among each other and their leadership in such a way that they became a new society altogether.