The Apostle Paul As A Key Servant Of God

New Testament survey has been a fundamental part of my learning experience. It’s amazing how we think we know so much about something, until reality lets you know you didn’t know half of what you thought you knew. Every account of the New Testament is precise with important details that connect to the Old Testament.

In so many different ways the apostle Paul must be regarded as a key servant of God in the New Testament’s story of the church, “given James Stalker writes that the early Christian community ‘was in the utmost need of a man of extraordinary endowments, who, becoming possessed with it genius, should incorporate it with general history of the world; in it Paul it found the man it needed (Jensen.p.235).

Paul was a native of Tarsus,

In his youth Paul learned of tent-making. He may have matriculated at the famous university in Tarsus, one of the three major universities of the Roman Empire. His rabbinical training was under Gamaliel at Jerusalem.

His postschool probably served in synagogues outside of Palestine after his rabbinical training. He return to Jerusalem after Jesus ascension .It was than they he became one of the greatest persecutor of the Christian church.

Paul’s conversion to Christ came at the height of the opposition to the church, on the road to Damascus. Act 9:1-9a reports the experience. Paul’s decision to cast lot with the member of the Christian community did not make him a missionary all at once, for about fourteen years passed before his work as a leader in the movement received any recognition. Many of Paul’s New Testament letters were written during his years of missionary labor(Jensen.p.237 Chart 59). . The epistles are letters written to inexperienced churches and individual believers in the early days of Christianity. These are thirteen letters that address a specific circumstance or situation. Four of these letters were written while Paul, one of the disciples, was confined in prison. Three letters are exclusively for church leadership, Timothy and Titus and elaborate on ministerial

These are similar in that they identify the sender and the recipients and extend greetings. Paul often would follow this with thanksgiving and prayer. Each letter specifically confronts the congregation or person to whom Paul is writing. These were initially intended to be read aloud during a single service of public worship, at a single church. Next we have the books of Hebrew to Revelation. Hebrews is considered to be a Pauline epistle letter also. James to Jude is considered to be general Epistles. James was a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Four men in the New Testament bore this name, but this James was the leader of the church in Jerusalem. He addresses a letter to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad. James insists that works not words are the mark of a disciple. The book of 1 Peter states that Peter was an Apostle of Jesus Christ. This letter reflects a time of suffering and persecution. It admonishes the readers to al life of purity, of Godly living and exhorts them to steadfastness and faithfulness in