The apostle pauls missionary work
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Apostle Paul and the Missionary Task
"Apostle Paul and the Missionary Task"
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As a missionary, the Apostle Paul was second only to our Lord.
The great apostle is the archetypal missionary and the supreme exemplar to every man and woman aspiring to undertake the most precious labor available to human activity: the proclamation of the Gospel.
As a missionary and missionary statesman, Paul was a divine appointee.
The apostle pauls missionary work
There are no less than three accounts of his supernatural calling on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:3-9; 22:6-16; 26:13-18). The accounts supplement each other, but the last of the three spells out specifically and in detail the missionary task laid upon the great Apostle by our Lord: "I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you.
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