The challenges to the 1st century church weren’t all that different from ours today, the Apostle John tells us how to respond and persevere

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—”
– 1 John 1:1-2