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Paul’s Journey

Paul’s Journey. from Pharisee to Evangelist, from Tarsus to Rome. Saul as a young Pharisee. His Credentials (Ph 3:5-7). If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more....

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Paul’s Journey

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  1. Paul’s Journey from Pharisee to Evangelist,from Tarsus to Rome

  2. Saul as a young Pharisee

  3. His Credentials (Ph 3:5-7) • If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more.... • Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ...I regard all as loss, for the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

  4. Jerusalem studies • .Ac 22:3

  5. Letters from the High Priest • .Ac 9:1

  6. Paul’s own account • Ac 22:4-6 • I persecuted this Way up to death "While I was on my ..a great light shone about me…”

  7. .. On the way to Damascus.

  8. A chosen Instrument…

  9. What he left behind.. • Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ…

  10. His motivation

  11. Tent-maker by Trade Ac 18:3

  12. Paul’s story, also shaped by Luke’s narrative framework

  13. Barnabas as Mentor • Barnabas brought him to the apostles, and described for them how on the road he had seen the Lord, …and how in Damascus.. • Ac 9:27f

  14. Acts 11:25

  15. First years of Ministry (Ac 11-14)

  16. Together with Barnabas

  17. Peter’s support

  18. Vital agreement reached

  19. Later, Peter met Paul in Antioch

  20. Hot Argument (Gal 2:11)

  21. Outcome of the Antioch Quarell • Short-term: Paul lost status in Antioch; Barnabas sided with Peter; Paul regarded as trouble-maker • Long-term: Paul’s principle (Equality for Gentile Xtians) was vindicated, as vital for the Church’s future

  22. Luke’s serene Paul – Why?

  23. Paul’s first converts in Europe

  24. Philippians: a delightful epistle“Gaudete”

  25. Their call: to imitate Christ

  26. Via Thessalonica & Athens to Corinth (Ac 17-18)

  27. Many Corinthians turned to Christ

  28. Next stop: Ephesus

  29. Where he met fierce oppositionAA 19:23ff

  30. Several epistles from Ephesus

  31. A Superb vocational text

  32. When later he arrived in Rome..

  33. First welcomed, and later revered, (“twin pillars”)

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