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

First of all, Paul is the called and somehow trained preacher of Jesus Christ. This is the fundamental character that he had for his ultimate purpose to preach the Godly massage to the gentiles. It is the most important characteristic to Paul’s career an apostle. In fact the career of an apostle grew on the principle of preaching. “As a preacher Paul’s hallmark was his ability to communicate dynamically and to press for a decision. The results of his preaching give irrefutable witness to its effectiveness.”

With this motivation, it governs Paul’s Journey during his missionary practice, even in the unfinished journey plan to Spain. As figure 1 (St. Paul’s Travels, David Smith) shows, Paul himself worked his commission on a world wide base of then. He had traveled most of the known regions: Syria and Cilicia, Minor Asia, Macedonia, Achaea, Illyricum and so on. Although, it is all in the Greco-Roman area, which is not such a big region for today, back to most two thousand years ago, this would be probably the whole known world for a Jew. In this case, by setting up such a long journey to walk through, Paul considered himself as the media, the container of Christ’s massage; then, the further he traveled, the further the massage of Christ was preached. Therefore, the long Journey during Paul’s missionary practice is the central and most effective method in preaching Jesus’ massage to gentiles back then.

Journey, as one of the most important and largest portion of Paul’s missionary practice, is the central method of Paul’s preaching. As the vision of the Jesus commanded him, Paul is entitled to preach the gospel among the gentile. And gentile in its definition is the people other than Jews. In another words, Paul is commanded to preach the massage to rest of the world. The salvation would no longer only stay in Jewish communities. Stated by Martin Hengel:

Thirdly, Paul is a good and warm friend to all of his friends. He has friends like Luke who also a good apostle. As a friend of Luke, Paul’s action and story moved Luke to write the marvelous book of Acts. Also, Paul has friend like Titus, who was a student of him. His warm and excellent teaching gives Titus stre

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