Paul and His Converts: How Paul Nurtured the Churches He Planted
Overview
In this commentary on five of Paul’s letters—to the churches in Corinth, Thessalonica, and Philippi—F. F. Bruce focuses on Paul’s pastoral care and the growth of the people he loved so much. Since we face today so many of the problems and issues Paul and his converts faced, this book acts as a guide for growth. How can we encourage and build up fellow believers? How can we correct their shortcomings? As an ambassador of Christ, Paul speaks to the Thessalonians about the Second Coming of Christ, the Christian Hope, and the conquest of evil. He speaks to the Corinthians about Christianity in a pagan surrounding, Christian liberty, marriage and family, Christian unity, apostolic succession, Christian stewardship, co-operation of all, and the power of love. He speaks to the Philippians about the mind of Christ. When it comes to these topics, Paul is speaking not only to first-century Christians, but to Christians today as well.
Top Highlights
“Twenty-one of these are letters, written occasionally to individuals but more often to churches or Christian communities. Of these twenty-one letters, thirteen bear the name of Paul as their writer.” (source)
“‘Letters to young churches’. They were addressed, that is to say, to newly-founded churches whose members were quite recent and inexperienced converts to Christianity.” (source)
“There were no written gospels when Paul wrote these letters. Yet the letters were written to Christians—that is to say to people who had heard and believed the gospel story.” (source)
“European civilization has never ceased to be in essence the civilization bequeathed by the christianized Roman Empire” (source)
“When Paul commends the Corinthian Christians for maintaining ‘the traditions’ (1 Corinthians 11:2), or when he urges the Thessalonian Christians to ‘hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter’ (2 Thessalonians 2:15), he is probably referring to this body of teaching.” (source)
- Title: Paul and His Converts: How Paul Nurtured the Churches He Planted
- Author: F. F. Bruce
- Publisher: Kingsley Books
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. 1 Thessalonians › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 Thessalonians › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 1 Corinthians › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 Corinthians › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Philippians › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781912149087, 1912149087
- Resource ID: LLS:PLHSCNVRTHPLNTD
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:14:52Z
F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was known worldwide as the "dean of evangelical scholarship"—a reputation earned by a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and writing. Trained in classics at the University of Aberdeen and Cambridge University, he taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, and Sheffield before serving for nearly twenty years as the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester in England. During his distinguished career, he wrote many outstanding commentaries and books, including Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free; Israel and the Nations; New Testament History; The Books and the Parchments: How We Got Our English Bible; Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament; and The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? He also served as general editor of The New International Commentary on the New Testament.