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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...

while apostolic coworkers and itinerant evangelists functioned in ways similar to the apostles, it appears that Paul did not consider non-apostles to have an inherent supra-congregational authority or a revelatory role of the type he exercised.20 Certain elements of the apostolic mission could not be continued. The church could not produce new authoritative eyewitnesses of Jesus’ resurrection. Nevertheless, as we shall see, Paul considered the general apostolic missionary obligation to devolve upon
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