The Evangelism Theology of Paul
Apostle Paul was a man who dedicated himself to the evangelism, church planting, and disciple making. This author will examine the biblical answers of relationship evangelism for contemporary churches through the research on Paul’s ministry revealed in Acts.
Synagogue-centered Evangelism
The main concern of Paul to witness God’s gospel was on the Jews (Rom. 1:16). It approves why he visited synagogues whenever he went to each towns. Except for Philippi , he mostly employed synagogues strategically as contact points to deliver Good News.
Synagogues were the adequate place to meet the religious needs of dispersed Jews (Diaspora). In the time of Jesus, Diaspora Jews were more than Jews in Canaan. About seventy percent of dispersed Jews settled down on the shores of the Mediterranean. Harnack estimated the number of all Jews in the early Christianity age at around 4.5 millions. Wherever dispersed Jews settled down, they planted synagogues and abided by traditional rituals. Furthermore, they had culture to ask itinerant rabbis to preach the word of recommendation (Acts 13:15).
Therefore, Paul could have chance to witness Christ before pious and religious audience wherever he traveled. Contrary to pious foreigners, most Jews often rejected Paul and his messages (Acts 13:45, 50; 14:2, 19; 17:5; 18:12; 21:27; 23:12). So, whenever he was expelled out of synagogues frequently, he moved other towns (Acts 18:7; 19:7) and headed for synagogues again. In this context, Herbert Kane properly pointed out that synagogues were the place to supply Paul with the best chance to witness Christ as well as the place to confront most hostile groups in his ministry. Luke introduced his synagogue ministry several ...
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Two Wing’s Evangelism revised by Rev.Kim, Sung Kon emphasize passionate prayer ministry in each cell group to encourage and motivate cell members for evangelism. Kim asserts that passionate prayer ministry in each cell group is to see the work of Holy Spirit because he is still alive and want to work among the obedient workers of God.
Conclusion
This research examined the evangelism of Jesus and Paul to focus on relationship evangelism in Korea context that has malicious attitude against the evangelism of Christianity. Jesus took initiative to approach at non-believers, and he found and developed a common topic from a gospel-recipient. His spiritual perspective made a Samarian woman confess he was a prominent prophet and it led her conversion. Jesus also taught his Evangelism Theology in several places of Synoptic Gospels.
With Jerusalem destroyed, Paul and others followers of the Jerusalem Church, which was a section of Judaism, began to spread the word of Jesus throughout Rome and the surrounding area to Gentiles. No one had a greater effect on spreading Christianity than Paul did, Paul was actually quite radical as he preached the teachings of Jesus Christ to Gentiles as they too could get God’s salvation. This can also be seen by looking at The New Testament as fourteen of the twenty-seven books in The New Testament have been linked to Paul. With Paul and other apostles spreading the word of Jesus after his death and resurrection the Early Church and Judaism began to clash which then caused the teachings of Jesus to break off. In short the Roman Jewish War gave the teachings of Jesus Christ the ability to take hold in ancient Europe which allowed those teachings to break off and form a new religion,
Inform my audience why Paul of the Bible still makes an impression on today's preachers and teachers in all walks of life.
A person can evangelize many different ways. There are intellectual methods, relational methods, and confrontational methods. There is no right or wrong way to evangelize only the right method for the situation. In this paper, I will be discussing one way of evangelizing for each of the different methods. This paper will include the Romans Road method, the Friendship evangelism method, and the Door-to-Door evangelism method.
Paul was very much considerate about the learning, teaching, training, and preaching of his devotees and his vision was that all forms of chief missionary responsibilities exclusively required team work – a team of devoted and passionate men and women both who would work together in the way of God. It is determined from the data collected by Kostenberger (2000) that Paul’s missionary contemporaries consisted of about one third of women. The Disciple Paul was assured of it that the church, as the main organization for Christ’s teachings, having men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds, linguistic skills and religious contextual, can
became the apostle to the gentiles. Why would Paul, a Jew, want to be an
As I saw from Scripture all the different places that Christians in the Bible gathered together, I came to the conclusion that the reason why God doesn’t go into much detail about the place where they gathered is because He’s not interested in buildings, He’s interested in people. He’s interested in what people do, not what people use to shelter themselves. There are so many instances in Scripture about where they met, but that’s all they are: instances. It is a guaranteed fact that when Paul (or whoever else) went to a place and shared the gospel with them, the new believers supernaturally wanted to be with one another and therefore gathered together. Whether it was in a house, synagogue, or somewhere else, Paul’s (and God’s) thrust of Scripture is directed more to what believers are to know and do.
Throughout Paul and the Apostles journey, they reached a variety of types of people. Among those people were believers of Jesus Christ and non-believers of Jesus Christ. Approaching these churches, one thing I notice is people were willing to listen to what Paul had to say. Although some quickly dismissed him and question him because of his past as a persecutor of the Church, he reached a lot of people with the Gospel.
On the road to Damascus, Paul received a calling to become “an instrument whom [YHWH] chose to bring my name before Gentiles [ethne or “nations”] and kings and before the people of Israel” (Acts 9:15). The Ioudaioi or Judeans would be considered as part of the people of Israel. Therefore, Paul had the responsibility to persuade the Ioudaioi that justice and salvation come about through Jesus Christ alone (Romans 5:12-21). A lot of the Ioudaioi believed that justice is obtained through following nomos or “law or custom”. Paul debated with the Ioudaioi in order to successfully persuade them to believe his viewpoint. This was done by means of his three missionary trips (H G-33) and by him writing letters to the ekklesia in various cities.
Paul the Apostle is the central figure in many New Testament writings. Many historians have attributed fourteen New Testament letters to Paul’s writing; seven of these letters are uncontested meaning historians are sure that Paul wrote them, the remaining seven are contested. Paul was not always a Christian; in fact, he persecuted Christians before Christ came and temporarily blinded him. Upon seeing Christ, Paul devoted his life to Christianity and set out to spread the teachings of Christ. Scholars often credit Paul’s leadership to the ability of the Church to become Hellenistic in one generation. Paul also answered specific worries and questions that his converters may have had in many of his writings; one of these writings is 1 Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians, Paul set out to deal with the many believers in Corinth who are divided into the followings of Paul or Apollos rather than Christianity as a whole. The converts of Paul in 1 Corinthians 12-14 were divided during times of worship because of jealousy invoked by the spiritual gifts received from the “Spirit”; the worships and the church became a place to boast who is closest to God, instead of a place of worship, interpretation, and love. In 1 Corinthians 14:26-33, Paul set guidelines in times of worship to heal the divide among his converts present in 1 Corinthians 12-14.
Indeed, Asian religions and teachings like Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were all equally influential in Korean culture and cosmology. In addition, Korean folk religion, shamanism, tends to absorb all the religious elements and principles according to the local interests. Furthermore, it is significant to highlight that Christianity, the latest arrival on the soil, has been growing at a rapid pace in last decades, making Korea the most Christianized country in Asia without a history of western colonization. In this regard, one can say that Korea, in particular, South Korean religious cultures are rich and diverse. Some foreign observers find interesting that each family members have different religious belief. For example, there is no problem in a family, even though the mother is Buddhist, the father is atheist, and their children go to Catholic or Protestant churches
Teaching infuses understanding and knowledge. Spreading the message about Christ and the ability to lean, trust, and depend on Him is the message of gospel and the New Testament. “Paul evangelized as the commissioned representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. Evangelism was a task that had been specifically entrusted to him. Paul saw himself as Christ’s herald” (Packer, 1961, p. 42-43). The gospel is a real message about Christ who comes to save real sinners. It’s critically important that sinners come to an understanding that they are far apart from God and known as enemies to Him. “The gospel is a message about sin. It tells us how we have fallen short of God’s standard; how we have become guilty, filthy, and helpless in sin, and now stand under the wrath of God. It tells us that the reason why we sin continually is that we are sinners by nature, and that nothing we do, or try to do, for ourselves can put us right, or bring us back into God’s favor” (Packer, 1961, p.
During early missionaries journeys the Gospel of Christ was shared first with the Jews. These early workers went into the local “synagogue and reading the Law and the Prophets” (Acts 13:15) teaching that, Jesus Christ has fulfilled the scriptures of the Messiah. Today the Law and Prophets are known as the Old Testament. The early church used these scriptures to verify the accuracy of what Peter, Paul and the rest of early church were preaching. The Jews in Berea received the word from Paul and examined the scripture daily to confirm the truth (Acts 17:10-12). These early followers of Christ set the example that today’s believers need to follow.
Paul's first missionary journey was to the island of Cyprus. Salamis was there first destination on the island. During his stay in Salamis Paul and Barnabas preached in the Jewish synagogues, while John also ministered with them. The next stop Paul and Barnabas made was Paphos at the almost opposite end of Cyprus. While in Paphos they found a Governor called Sergius Paulus who wanted to hear their teachings. However, the Governor had sorcerer, Elymas, in his company, who did not want him to hear the word of God. Paul being filled with the Holy Ghost admonished Elymas and said, "O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season" (Acts 13:10-11). Elymas being struck blind astonished the Governor and he believed the word of the Lord that apostles had spoken to him. After leaving Paphos John returned to Jerusalem.
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Evangelism is one of the key component for changing people’s lives. McRaney states, “The word evangelism comes from a combination of Greek words for “good” and “messenger.” Evangelism involves bringing the goods. Kent Hunter reminded us that “when Christians witness, they tell how Jesus Christ has changed their own lives. The change in their own lives gives them the desires to share the Good News with others.” Christians must share their testimony to people and spread the gospel so that they can bring lost souls to Christ. God has commissioned every Christian to evangelize so that people will learn about Jesus Christ and accept Him as their personal savior. Matthew 28:19 states, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. Christians are required to spread the Gospel throughout the world and can no longer just attend church. Christians must plant seeds and water the seeds so that lost souls will be saved.