Introduction The New Testament is written in a Greco-Roman setting, this offers some challenges when reading in a modern context. Words like patronage and benefactor have high value in the Greco-Roman society but almost no value inside a modern society. It is necessary to understand the culture it is written in and for, to create applications into a modern context. This paper will expose some of the challenges Christianity had in the Greco-Roman world, but also the opportunities this world gave evangelism. This is interesting today hence the correlations between the Greco-Roman world and the modern world, i.e. the infrastructure also supports fast sharing of knowledge and education and a general acceptance of exotic deities. Greco-Roman World Greco-Roman tends to be misleading, Greece was under the supremacy of Rome, had no independent military or political power, Greco referees to the Greeks influential cultural and religious approach to leading an empire. …show more content…
Masculinity is defined by the four virtues, self-control, wisdom, justice, and courage, basically, the same virtues Paul elaborately teaches Timothy to consider when selecting overseers (1. Tim. 3:1-10). The adoration of masculinity proves some problems presenting Jesus, without the receiver focuses on an emasculated victim (Conway, 2008, pp89-104). Jesus is a strong masculine character through all Gospels, but a true masculine hero would have found a last minute way down from the cross and not die in disgrace, or at least, he would have died fighting before reaching the cross. Paul confesses knowledge of the emasculated christ being a challenge for evangelism, "Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles" (1. Cor 1:22-23). The new