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Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission: Did the Apostle Paul Expect the Early Christian Communities to Evangelize? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the apostle Paul expect the early Christian communities to evangelize? This book engages in a careful study of Paul’s letters to determine if the apostle expected the communities to which he wrote to engage in missionary activity. It helpfully summarizes the discussion on this debated issue, judiciously handling contested texts, and provides a way forward in addressing this critical...

be passive instruments of attraction, but active evangelistic entities. Beyond this general affirmation of expected continuity, however, prior to the 1950s, few scholars treated our topic with any level of detail. In exactly what missionary tasks does Paul expect the churches to be involved? Which persons within the congregation are to be involved? On what basis does Paul expect this involvement? Proposed answers to these questions, and indeed the questions themselves, are often absent from both
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