Sentences with phrase «missionary journey»

Perhaps he had been converted by Paul and Barnabas on the first missionary journey.

The second missionary journey of Paul, and what he learned and gained at several locations where he stopped along the way before returning to Antioch.

The third missionary journey of Paul was his most extensive going through Asia Minor and Greece.

At the beginning of this period he writes to the Galatians, and at the end to the Romans (in order to prepare for a fourth missionary journey to Spain).

In Silas, Paul found a kindred spirit, and it was he who replaced Barnabas on the second missionary journey.

Yet his return to Antioch heralds the start of his third missionary journey almost immediately.

Alone and sorrowful, Paul finds a reception in Corinth that makes his mission there the crown of his second missionary journey.

The second missionary journey ended where it began, in Antioch.

There is no indication in Acts that he sought the guidance of the Holy Spirit when he began this second missionary journey.

There is no indication in Acts that Paul sought the guidance of the Holy Spirit when he began his missionary journey into Europe.

Now, however, this second missionary journey takes a different turn altogether.

When Jewish resistance turned to fierce opposition on the missionary journey to the synagogues of Asia Minor, Paul and Barnabas finally announced to their Jewish compatriots the following decision, which had such momentous results: «It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you.

The Eucharist is the food for our missionary journey into the world for its salvation.

Because of this, Paul insisted that John Mark not go with them on a second missionary journey, but Barnabas, being the encourager that he was, wanted to give John Mark a second chance.

According to Acts 13:1 - 3, Paul and Barnabas were commissioned for their missionary journey by prayer and the laying on of hands.

The third missionary journey was the most extensive geographically of any of the three, and its duration was much longer than the other two had been.

In fact, judging from his first experience with them when he stopped briefly in Ephesus on his way to Jerusalem at the close of his second missionary journey, he had every reason to anticipate a gracious and fruitful ministry among them (18:19 - 21).

It was at Philippi on the second missionary journey that the «we passage» in Acts had ended, indicating that Paul had left Luke there when he went on to Thessalonica.

The third missionary journey was Paul's last voluntary itineration throughout Asia Minor and Greece; like the other two, it was a journey that he, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, planned and accomplished freely without major external restraints.

Paul and Barnabas gathered the church together at Antioch after their first missionary journey acts 14:27.

The New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn contends that for Paul this event resulted in a decisive break with the church that had sponsored his original missionary journey.

Paul the apostle was given instructions for his missionary journey in Acts.

When Paul returned from his third missionary journey to pay his last visit to Jerusalem he still retained the confidence of James and the Jerusalem elders (Acts 21:18 - 20), but the smouldering dislike of many of the church members for his teaching is apparent (Acts 21:21).

The three churches in Galatia were established at Lystra, Iconium and Derbe on Paul's first missionary journey.

These events described in Galatians had to occur before the adjudication of this dispute by the Jerusalem Conference, and in all probability did occur before Paul and Barnabas made their missionary journey.

When Barnabas insisted on allowing John Mark to participate in the second missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas parted company.

Paul proposed to Barnabas, after they had spent some time in Antioch, that they return to all the cities they had evangelized during their first missionary journey.

Paul stopped to visit this fledgling Christian community on his second missionary journey.

The writing of the letters that we know were Paul's began about the year 50, during his second missionary journey.

These were written during a three - year stay at Ephesus on his third missionary journey, probably between the winter of 53 and the fall of 55.

After the return of Paul and Barnabas from their missionary journey together, certain men from Jerusalem arrived in Antioch and insisted that circumcision is essential to Christian salvation, thus making the grace of God through Jesus Christ subsidiary to the Mosaic law and making the Savior himself dependent on Moses.

Presumably Paul had converted all three of them on his first missionary journey.

All he and Barnabas do is describe what happened in regard to the gentiles on their missionary journey.

Paul had founded some churches there on his first missionary journey and he revisited them on the second.

But God had him spend 17 years in preparation before Paul went on his first missionary journey.

Jesus sent the disciples on a missionary journey by telling them to go.

I think of David Livingston, the great missionary to Africa, who had what seemed to be little fruit during his missionary journey.

The seventy in their missionary journey came to experience and understand the power of the kingdom of God.

Darby brought these doctrines to the U.S. during eight missionary journeys.

Watch Paul, expanding his missionary journeys and saying, «I must also see Rome.»

For the Gospel, he, like Matthew, had access to «Q,» Mark, and possibly other fragments; for Acts, besides his diary and personal memories, he doubtless had some records of happenings at Jerusalem before the missionary journeys started.

The story of these missionary journeys is a major portion of the Book of Acts.

Luke had buried them back in his Gospel, and once he had finished copying out the end of Q (at Luke 22:30), he rather explicitly said that the idyllic, unreal world of Jesus has been put behind us, for we must now come to grips with reality, buy a sword, become the church militant, and replace the kind of mission Jesus had advocated and practiced with one like the missionary journeys of Paul.

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

Grudgingly he set himself to the evangelization of Parthia and undertook difficult missionary journeys that brought him almost to India, «there», he said, «when he smelt the smell of the apostle Thomas», he felt at last he had done his duty and had gone far enough.

Can you think of anything much finer that could be said of anyone than was said of St. Francis Xavier by a companion on one of his terrific missionary journeys?

The seven churches of the Apocalypses, like the Asia Minor churches to which Ignatius writes early in the second century, and the missionary journeys of 3 John, are examples of the way in which the Church was growing, but for the most part the growth is hidden from us.

He was a wonderful teacher and missionary — think of World Youth Day and all those great missionary journeys...»

He spent more time in this city than in any other in the course of his three missionary journeys.

I also had a hard time reconciling this with Scripture, since I only knew of Paul's missionary journeys and I knew he was a tentmaker.