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Direct Answer The transcript doesn’t describe specific early-church structures (like formal creeds or catechisms) that produced uniformity; it grounds that uniformity in the idea that early teachers were passing on what came from “the apostles and the apostolic age” across “all the churches worldwide.” A reasonable inference from the transcript is that shared apostolic tradition and a common way of reading Scripture (especially through Jesus’ teaching) functioned as the unifying “teaching structure.”

Support from Transcript:

• It says the earliest churches had “a uniform understanding of the key points of Romans” and “no one was looking for a new interpretation.”
• The early Christian teachers “were teaching what was handed down to them from the apostles and the apostolic age.”
• Their understanding “was not the work of one man…It was the understanding of all the churches worldwide.”
• They interpreted by “the whole counsel of God,” weighing Romans against “the entirety of Scripture.”
• They “gave primacy to the teachings of Jesus” and interpreted Paul “in the light of Jesus’ teachings.”