firmly established churches” (1987, 198).8 Andreas Köstenberger and Peter O’Brien write, “The activities in which Paul engaged as he sought to fulfill his missionary commission included not only primarily evangelism through which men and women were converted, but the founding of churches and the bringing of believers to full maturity in Christ” (2001, 184). Eckhard Schnabel concurs: “Paul’s missionary work did not end with the oral communication of the good news of Jesus Christ and the conversion