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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Book Of Acts

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Paul, without doubt, was amongst the most renowned self-portrayed disciples to the Gentiles of New Testament scripture. He is indeed considered the prime supporter and practitioner of inter-culturalism as he was the only person well equipped with all the necessary tools to carry out the sacred task of church and mission in diversified regions. Paul had the most specialized personality with multidimensional aspects of being Jewish origin, Grecian schooling, Roman nationality, and Christian religion; hence it was not at all a complicated task for him to intermingle with people of different ethnic groups as an insider rather than an outsider. He was very much up to the task of crossing cultural boundaries to spread the word of God. The Book of …show more content…

While proclaiming the same good news about God’s salvation in Christ, to the three diversified audiences of different Asian regions, Paul made use of appropriately diverse cultural resources, rhetorical techniques, and logical arguments to win them over to the Christian faith (Phan, 2010). Paul’s cultural suppleness and enthusiasm to spread the Church Mission and the message of the Gospel intercultural, should not be taken to entail a naive approval of all the cultural patterns. It has been very rightly described by Flemming (2005) that Paul’s method of contextualization was fourfold; affirming, relativizing, confronting, and transforming cultures, all at …show more content…

It is clearly evident from all of the factual details of that era that Paul had evangelized and preached Gospel to large number of Gentiles before his first missionary journey (Morgado, 1994). He definitely had ample time and energies to make himself most prominent and profound disciple to the Gentiles and Diaspora Jews in a unique fashion. That perception of his personality indeed helped him in his other visits, especially his second visit to Jerusalem as people at that time used to recognize him very well as a devoted disciple of Jesus

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and he tried to reform one’s conscience to the word of God. Carson explained what it takes to become an apostle and showed how Jesus impacted Paul’s life. Paul understood when he became saved he was transformed by the blood of Jesus; however, he understood the need to be flexible for winning souls. Paul realized the need to be like others to gain access to people for the sake of evangelism. Paul understood

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To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History edited by Darrell Bock and Mitch Glaser builds a case for the importance of Jewish Evangelism based on the Bible, theological viewpoints, and the suggested missions approach. In the first article, “’For the Jew First’ : Paul’s Nota Bene for His Gentile Readers”, Mark Seifrid presents the importance of evangelism to the Jews as focused on the salvation of the Gentiles in order to provoke jealousy of the Jews.

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For about 30 years, Paul traveled about 10,000 miles, traveling across the Roman Empire. He preached in some of the most important cities in Rome. By taking a lax approach to the Jewish laws about food it helped the rapid spread of Christianity. As the movement began to accept non-Jewish members, it moved further away from strict rules inflicted on Jew..over time, the Christian movement grew more organized. In 313 AD.

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As a man who used to be a Jesus hater, not a follower, Paul spent most of his life following Christianity. “He spent the next 30 years traveling the eastern Mediterranean world, spreading Jesus’s teachings” (Doc F). The dedication of Paul’s teaching spread all over the Roman Empire. Traveling from Siden to Myra, all the way to Rome, Paul’s dedication greatly affected the way Christianity spread. Other early Christians also showed commitment and loyalty, even if their life was at stake.

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Paul influenced a large portion of the mid-eastern gentiles in his age and converted thousands to the Christian cause throughout his lifetime. Christ planned his life to unfold in such a way for him to reach out, disciple, and encourage to the best of his abilities. From his training under differing views to his own personal experience, the effects that would arise from Paul’s vastly influential ministry originate from three, specific causes. First, Paul claimed a Jewish heritage, and a Roman citizenship, and this combination affected his ministry in vital ways. As a Jew, Paul received attention that would have escaped his grasp had he originated a gentile.

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In preparation for this paper, I visited Element Church, located in Forest City, NC, on October 16. While waiting for the service to begin, I noticed the church’s vision statement : “Element Church exists to reach people far from God, and develop reproducing disciples one life at a time”. This revealed the same longing and purpose as so many of the New Testament prophets and messengers. Some of these being Peter, Paul, and Saul. Although there was not a New Testament book that was used for the message, there we're some New Testament ideals that was present throughout the service.

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What is quite interesting to see, is that in these two types of evangelism, there are many similarities. Paul and Ricci both make the evangelism harmonious with those they seek to reach. They are both willing to go out beyond their normal and comfortable ways of life in order to spread the Gospel. They worked on immersing themselves in the culture of their future prospects. They made sure that they had connecting points in which to bring Christianity into the picture of those from different backgrounds, using terminology or altars to unknown gods (Acts 17) to bring God into their perspective.

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For them, there was no reason to think that the Messiah had abolished the requirements established by God for all time in the Torah. The requirement included the need for circumcision. The vision of Christian moral identity inform Paul's expectation for the Galatian communities, and impacts on the way he depicts his own life of living by the law. In Galatians one, Paul recounts some personal biographical features which include his incomparability in traditional forms of Jewish life and his persecution of the church (1:13-14), his experience of having God's son revealed to him (1:12, 15-16), and the rupture in his relationship with other Christian leaders in Antioch over the issue compelling Gentiles to live like Jews (2:1-14). This then leads to Paul's defense of his gospel.

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Important because He, himself converted to Christianity. Jesus came to him on the road to Damascus, then God used Paul in a powerful way. Paul Himself was a living testimony of his own preaching that God is a loving and merciful. He will used people that one would never thought He used to get His word to the

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The letter of the Apostle Paul to the churches in Galatia was written to disprove the teachings of the false teacher that came to the people and told them another gospel that was different than the one which Paul preached. In their teachings, these people brought different gospel that meant to take away the freedom that they have received and caused confusion by perverting the Gospel of Christ Jesus. Paul’s purpose in writing this letter is to refute those who manipulate the Christian Gentiles to keep following the Jewish traditions in order to to be justified. In other words, these people argued that the work of Jesus Christ on the cross was not enough because in order to obtain salvation, the people do still need to keep the Jewish ceremonies

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Were he won an award for his great art work. In Jewish traditions you are to be loyal to your God and just like in any other religion not have any God before them. Being raised as a Jewish was problematic in Paul since he was raised as a Jewish. It was against their religion to create images that will be worship late on.

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(17:17) He reasoned in the synagogue: Paul reasoned with the Jews in the synagogue who worshiped the true God. He affirmed that, Jesus was the messiah, and fulfillment of all prophecies in reference to the messiah. And daily in the market place: Paul also reasoned daily in the market place with anyone who happened to be the there. In every situation, and to every occasion, Paul seems to find some place to preach Jesus (See 5:42).

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The crux of Paul’s teachings came to fruition largely at the council of Jerusalem. Issues had arisen concerning the role that circumcision and the Mosaic Law would have for these believers, who were still considered a sect within Judaism. Paul paved the way for Christianity by speaking boldly of the miracles that God had performed among uncircumcised Gentiles, thus displaying that there was no distinction in God’s sight between Jews and Gentiles, and the only criterion to be reborn into a new life was faith in Jesus Christ as the messiah. It was here that Christianity made its schism from Judaism to become a religion in its own right, and this rejection of exclusivity defined the central doctrines of Christianity. Paul was not fighting against

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Besides Jesus, Paul, who called himself as an Apostle, was influential in the beginning of Christianity. People even claimed him as the “founder of Christianity”. Paul was the one that brought Jesus’s message to the world. He went on three missionary journeys, and the fourth journey to Rome in order to spread Christian faith and the development of its various institutions. In addition of his responsible of geographically and culturally expanding Christian movement, he also extended it as well as ethnic lines.

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