The "crusty, long dead EFC" in many cases was martyred for his faith.

He was also a staunch defender of the faith against heresy.

He left us his writings so that we may know what the Early Church believed and taught.

And strangely enough, we find the Early Church believed and taught what the Catholic Church does today. Not the Baptist Church or the Lutheran Church or the Pentecostal Church.

Where are your Early Church Fathers? Who were they?