St. Paul was an apostle who vigorously spread Christianity throughout the known world at the time. He went on three missionary journeys, establishing Christian communities across places like Cyprus, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome. Some of the key communities he founded and visited included those in Philippi, where he established one of the first in Europe, Thessalonica, Athens, and Ephesus, where he stayed for three years. Through his missionary work and letters, St. Paul made major contributions to the growth and organization of the early Christian church.
New Testament Survey - no.24 : Paul - Pastoral LettersClive Ashby
As part of the New Testament Survey Course, Session 24 provides an overview of Paul's letters to his colleagues, to provide teaching, instruction and advice on their pastoral work in Ephesus and Crete. These were written during Paul's fifth mission journey, after being released from Roman imprisonment, prior to his execution in Rome several years later. They provide universal principles on church leadership relevant to this day. (Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016).
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New Testament Survey - no.24 : Paul - Pastoral LettersClive Ashby
As part of the New Testament Survey Course, Session 24 provides an overview of Paul's letters to his colleagues, to provide teaching, instruction and advice on their pastoral work in Ephesus and Crete. These were written during Paul's fifth mission journey, after being released from Roman imprisonment, prior to his execution in Rome several years later. They provide universal principles on church leadership relevant to this day. (Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016).
Journeys of paul the third journey and afterwardMark Pavlin
This slide deck study on the New Testament book of The Acts of the Apostles focuses on the so-called Third Journey of St. Paul and his final days. It is one of a series to help leaders of a Bible study or Sunday School class who are too busy to research and prepare as well as they would like for their task. The entire series is engaging, colorful and challenging and is ready to go even at the last moment. More are in the works. Search using the keyword "lessonstogo".
New Testament Survey - no.19: Paul - Letter to EphesusClive Ashby
As part of the New Testament Survey Course, Session 19 provides an overview of the letter of the Apostle Paul to the church in the city of Ephesus. This is one of the prison letters of Paul, written from his imprisonment in Rome. (Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016)
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As part of the Course on the New Testament, Session 9 provides an overview of the writing of Luke - His Gospel on the life of Christ. (This is part of the New Testament Survey Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016)
New Testament Survey no.10: Luke - Acts of the ApostlesClive Ashby
As part of the Course on the New Testament, session 10 provides an overview of the second part of the writing of Luke - His historical account of the Acts of the Apostles. (This is part of the New Testament Survey Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016)
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New Testament Survey - no.19: Paul - Letter to EphesusClive Ashby
As part of the New Testament Survey Course, Session 19 provides an overview of the letter of the Apostle Paul to the church in the city of Ephesus. This is one of the prison letters of Paul, written from his imprisonment in Rome. (Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016)
New Testament Survey - no.9: Luke - His Gospel AccountClive Ashby
As part of the Course on the New Testament, Session 9 provides an overview of the writing of Luke - His Gospel on the life of Christ. (This is part of the New Testament Survey Course taught at Harare Theological College - 2016)
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Call:
Goal. What was the purpose of his call?
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2. Biography
• St. Paul, the indefatigable Apostle of the Gentiles
• He was converted from Judaism on the road to Damascus. He
remained in Damascus after his baptism, and preaches the good
news.
• He then went to Jerusalem to see Peter and pay his homage to the
head of the Church.
• Later, he went back to Tarsus to evangelize his own province until
called by Barnabus to Antioch. After one year, on the occasion of a
famine, both Barnabus and Paul were sent with alms to the poor
Christian community at Jerusalem. Having fulfilled their mission
they returned to Antioch.
3. Letters
• 1 Corinthians:
Paul's letters to the Corinthians reveal how difficult it must have been as a
small Christian community to live in the midst of an extremely numerous
pagan environment.
• 2 Corinthians:
Paul continues to address the people of Corinth, sometime during the
years 55-57, after he was released initially from Rome
• Ephesians:
Likely written in the years 61-63, from prison, while in Rome,
• Philippians:
An example of Paul's affection and tenderness for the early Church that he
Founded during his second missionary journey in 50 A.D
4. Letters
• Colossians:
Written while in captivity in Rome during the years 61-63 A.D., St. Paul is
Instructing the Church in Colossae in regards to certain specific errors
concerning Christ's Supreme nature.
• 1 Thessalonians:
Acknowledged as the first piece of New Testament literature
• 2 Thessalonians:
warns the people of Thessalonia against living in idleness and failing to
work for one's own living Philemon: The shortest of Paul's letters
• 1, 2 Timothy & Titus:
The two epistles to Timothy and one to Titus offer the early Church
pastoral instructions in regards to organizing and administrating the
communities.
5. Letters
• 2 Thessalonians:
warns the people of Thessalonia against living in idleness and failing to
work for one's own living
• Philemon:
The shortest of Paul's letters
6. Journey
• After the Ascension of Jesus and has received the Holy Spirit, St. Paul
started to spread the Word of God.
• In the spreading of the Word of God, he went in three journeys across
the known world. The first journey was led by Barnabas, which led St.
Paul from Anatolia to Cyprus and to Asia Minor. This is found in Acts
13-14. Luke,
• Timothy & Silas, accompanied the second journey. They revisited all
the churches that were established in the Asia Minor during the first
journey then sailed for Europe.
• On the third, he revisited almost all the places from the second
journey but at Ephesus, he stayed for 3 years and made it his center of
missionary activity.
7. Journey
• 1st missionary journey:
Paul and Barnabus made the first missionary journey, visiting the island of
Cypress, then Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia, all in Asia Minor, and
establishing churches at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
• 2nd missionary journey:
After the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem Paul, accompanied by Silas and
later also by Timothy and Luke, made his second missionary journey, first
revisiting the churches previously established by him in Asia Minor, and
then passing through Galatia. He accordingly sailed for Europe, and
preached the Gospel in Philippi. Thessalonica, Beroea, Athens, and
Corinth. Then he returned to Antioch by way of Ephesus and Jerusalem.
8. Journey
• 3rd missionary journey:
Made Ephesus where he nearly remained for three years, the center of
his missionary activity. He had another plan to leave Jerusalem for
Rome. Jews hindered him from accomplishing his purpose. Sooner, he
reached Rome.
St. Paul was released from his Roman imprisonment, and then traveled to
Spain, later to the East again, and then back to Rome, where he was
imprisoned a second time and in the year 67, was beheaded.
In his Epistles, St. Paul shows himself to be a profound religious thinker
and he has had an enduring formative influence in the development of
Christianity. The centuries only make more apparent his greatness of
mind and spirit. His feast day is June 29th.
9. Contributions
• St. Paul contributed to the rapid growth of the early Church and he
became known as the communities that he had established were
ways of sustaining their faith even in his absence.
• It was in Antioch, a new Christian community, where the followers
of Jesus were first called “Christians”.
10. Christian communities that ST. Paul visited
• He visited the Christian communities in Syria, Cilicia and Lycaonia,
then Galatia, Phyrgia and Mysia, Macedonia and Philippi.
• In Philippi Saint Paul founded the first Christian community in
Europe. In this town him and his companion Silas were beaten and
cast into prison from where they miraculously escaped at midnight.
• From Philippi he left for Thessalonica where Saint Paul and his
followers preached both to the Jews and the Greeks.
• Numerous Greeks, Romans and even Jews were then converted to
the Christian faith.
11. Christian communities that ST. Paul visited
• The community in Thessalonica was founded on the second
missionary journey.
• This town was at that time an important port on the shore of the
Aegean Sea and was also an important commercial center on the
road (Via Egnatia) which connected Rome with the Orient. It had
100,000 inhabitants: Greeks, Romans and Jews who had a
synagogue and a well established community.
• The city had been reconstructed by Cassander (315 B.C.), the son-in-
law of Philip II, the king of Macedonia. The town had its name from
Cassander’s wife, the sister of Alexander the Great, whose name
was Tessalonica. Thus the settlement changed its name from
Thermae to Tessalonica.
• Later the city became prosperous and the capital of Macedonia
moved here.
12. Christian communities that ST. Paul visited
• From here Paul left for Athens where he converted Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris and even the religious
leader of the Jewish community in town.