When the Apostle Peter in the imperial capital wrote his first letter to the Christians living in the Asian provinces of the Roman Empire, he addressed them as strangers, foreigners, exiles, or resident aliens.[11] Peter uses this term for these new believers, not because they were actual foreigners, but because now that they had been baptized into Christ they had pledged their allegiance to a new kingdom and were to live as those no longer fully at home in the Roman Empire.
