EXEGESIS: GALATIANS 1:11-17 The letter to the Galatians written by Paul to the churches he established in Galatia during his first missionary journey declares that freedom in Christ flows from justification by faith through grace alone. These verses assert Paul’s divine calling to establish the gentile church and appeal to Galatian Christians to resist adding to the gospel of grace the observance of certain Jewish traditions including circumcision, Jewish festival and food laws promoted by
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journeys of Paul that concluded with Paul arriving in Rome and getting thrown in prison. Other events discussed were the persecution that continued to plague the Church as it was growing and expanding throughout the land. The influence of the Holy Spirit is infused through the book of Acts and Luke describes many of the events in exceptional detail. Philippians The genre of the book of Philippians is a gospel letter of thanks written by Paul while he was imprisoned in Rome. The key theme in this
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our understanding of Pastoral Care in the church. It is surprising how little attention has been directed to the apostle Paul as pastor.1 This is unfortunate, particularly because Paul’s letters are themselves the product of his pastoral activities and offer us direct and immediate access to them. 2 Moreover, we have Paul’s own testimony that his pastoral concerns loomed large in his apostolic work. After presenting a lengthy recital of his apostolic hardships he adds, ―And, apart from other things
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PAUL'S JOURNEY FROM JERUSALEM TO ROME The Apostle Paul arrives in Jerusalem together with some of the disciples from Caesarea. He is lodged "with one of the early disciples, Mnason from Cyprus." The next day Paul goes to see James, and all the elders of the Jerusalem church are also present. Paul tells them "in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry." After hearing it they praise God and say to him: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all
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A Report: The Letter of Paul to the Romans I-BLM Submitted by: Reina Carla C. Luciano Anjelli Mika S. Masa Julian Gerolaga Lorenzo B. Garcia Josiah Nathan Gonzales Renzo Oliver Lubuguin I. Introduction According to a website, bible.org, Paul’s letter to the Romans is probably the most systematic presentation of the gospel in all of his writings, and indeed in all of the New Testament. The letter can be broken down into two major sections, namely, doctrine (1:18-11:36) and then application (12:1-15:13)
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Author: Luke Intended Audience: Addressed again to Theophilus, but intended for all believers It contained a historical account to of the origins of Christianity. The book of Acts also helps to bridge the divide between the Gospel narrative and the letters to the church. Romans Author: Paul the apostle Intended Audience: Gentile church in Rome The book was written with an emphasis on the sinful nature of man and God’s plan to
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the New Testament of the Bible. The book of Galatians is Paul the Apostle’s letter to several Early Christian communities in Galatia. The churches of Galatia were comprised of both Jewish and Gentile converts, and Paul’s purpose for writing to them was to confirm them in the faith. The truth of justification by faith, and not those of human works alone, was being denied by Jewish missionaries trying to de-authenticate Paul’s teachings. Paul learned of this, and wrote his defense of the apostolic authority
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Paul’s Journey to Rome and what it means to me. A Prosperous Journey Paul had a great desire to go to Rome. He knew however that if such an opportunity presented itself, God would have to open up the way. His prayer that God might do this for him is given to us in Romans 1:10: “Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.” He often shows his awareness of God’s involvement in the everyday affairs of his life by the
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Apostlesdeals with Paul's life and works. Seven of the epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder. The Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews, already doubted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries but almost unquestioningly accepted from the 5th to the 16th centuries, is now almost universally rejected by scholars. The other six are believed by some scholars to have come from followers writing in his name, using material from Paul's surviving
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holy word (Mitchell, 2004). The home church was responsible for the evangelism and discipleship of their area (Zodhiates, 2001). The Apostle Paul, Timothy and also Chloe were the main personalities of this book (Mitchell, 2004). Paul’s drive in transcribing this letter to the church in Corinth was to talk to and modify the wickedness and separations happening amongst them (Zodhiates, 2001). Paul obtained information of difficulties in the church in Corinth and consequently dealt with their troubles
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