The Missionary Practice Of Paul

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The Missionary Practice of Paul
Born in a city in Cilicia, Paul, with a former name “Saul”, was raised and educated in the city of Tarsus. Afterwards, he moved to Jerusalem to receive an ideal Jewish education at the feet of Gamaliel, and finally became a member of pharisaic sector of Jewish society. As a Pharisee, Paul was like any other Pharisees persecuting Christian. On his way to Damascus for persecuting the Christian church over there, he confronted the vision of risen Jesus Christ himself, was converted to a Christian, and was given a commission by Christ in person to preach the massage of salvation to the gentiles. Then, Paul’s life turned over, he became an apostle of Christianity. During his apostle career, Paul insisted his missionary practice as Jesus Christ commanded, to preach the Godly massage to the gentiles, under the up rising tensions between Jewish and Gentile Christians of his three visits in Jerusalem Church, by his effective use of profound method of preaching and excellent use of his various personal characteristics.
On his first visit to the Jerusalem church, Paul was rejected by some of the Jewish Christian not only for his Pharisee background, but also for his point of not emphasizing the law to gentile converts. “For Gentile Christians, according to Paul they did not need to become Jews to be Christians. This led to one of the first major split within Christianity.” His first missionary journey was not approved by Jerusalem church.
Afterwards as Paul’s influence grew rapidly among gentile Christian, his idea of not using Law to gentile Christian was strengthened and largely accepted by gentiles. Thus, he made his second visit to Jerusalem Church with his student Titus, a gentile Christian without circumcision, as a successful test sample of converts. Although the test was passed, the tension was getting stronger. It breaks out when Peter had dinner with gentile Christian in Paul’s Galatians...