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