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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...

The theological study presented above is also an aid in understanding the discontinuity between the elect community’s mission in the Old Testament (i.e., Israel’s mission) and the elect community’s mission in the New Testament (i.e., the church’s mission). Although many popular missiological studies have claimed that the missionary witness of God’s people in both the Old and New Testaments is an active, centrifugal
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