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January 18, 2016 at 10:26 pm #4106
This is where you post your comments on Week Two of Introduction To Missions. Please remember these three thingsā¦read the content for understanding, make personal application, and interact with the material and fellow bloggers. When making your posts you should show that you understand the material and that you have made application, but in addition you should bring critical thinking to the process and challenge the status quo.
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What would be considered to be the characteristics of Paul’s Missionary Methods?
February 27, 2017 at 12:27 am #4677According to studies by Eckhard Schnabel, there were seven different characteristics of Paul’s missionary methods.
1. People needed to hear the news of Jesus Christ. All people, and by whatever means necessary.
2. In order for people to hear about Jesus, Paul realized that HE NEEDED TO TRAVEL TO THEM in their cities, towns, and communities.
3. In order to reach Mediterranean cities and towns, Paul realized that him and other apostles would have to travel in Roman provinces.
4. Paul realized that in order for people to hear the gospel of Christ, he needed to find people who were willing to listen and even engage in conversation. That means speaking in place where people were accustomed to hearing and listening to speeches and/or news.
5. Everyone was relevant to Paul and the apostles. Despite of ethnic identity, class, gender, culture, you needed to hear the news of Jesus. Wether you we’re Jew or even pagan didn’t matter. They realized that Jesus had come for the world.
6. Paul considered the rhetorical principles of each culture wen teaching about Jesus.
7. After groups of people accepted the news of Christ, the question of what made missionary work successful was then looked at.
This is a summary of the characteristics of Paul’s Methods from chp. 4 pg 61.
Paul is arguably the most effective missionary to ever live. I think the key characteristic that we all can learn from was his faithfulness to spreading this new and wonderful news of the Christ. Despite of his various trials,( time in prison, death threats, disagreements with brothers) he continued to fight with all that he was, for the work of carrying the Kingdom of God to others. If I learn anything from Paul then it is to focus on being faithful, despite of what trials we experience. When we faithfully look to Jesus, we find ourselves carrying the strength to move forward and to
reach the world around us.March 2, 2017 at 5:59 pm #4688I think the main characteristic of Paul’s methods would be “Driven”. I also believe it was no accident or coincidence that he was trained in all the ways of a Pharisee before his conversion. God’s ways are perfect
When Paul was saved he hit the ground running. I believe the book says that “if a contemporary missionary followed Paul’s schedule and itinerary, burnout would be a real danger.”
His methods were also blunt. He didn’t pull any punches with the gospel. There will be hardships and he served as a living example of those hardships.
Paul’s methods were also complete, meaning all of his messages were grounded in the gospel. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was the end result of all of his church visits whether the initial focus was about church logistics, grafting of the Gentiles, or purity.
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