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Paul and His Converts: How Paul Nurtured the Churches He Planted is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary on five of Paul’s letters—to the churches in Corinth, Thessalonica, and Philippi—F. F. Bruce focuses on Paul’s pastoral care and the growth of the people he loved so much. Since we face today so many of the problems and issues Paul and his converts faced, this book acts as a guide for growth. How can we encourage and build up fellow believers? How can we correct their...

There were no written gospels when Paul wrote these letters. Yet the letters were written to Christians—that is to say to people who had heard and believed the gospel story. But they knew it in an oral form, not in written records. Since they knew it, however, it was not necessary for Paul to relate it in his letters to them, except when, for purposes of his own, he thinks it wise to remind them of the gospel which they had heard from his lips. He does this, for example, at the beginning of 1 Corinthians
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