Paul: The Missionary Apostle (Bible Biography Series)
Overview
"When it was time, in the gracious plan of God, to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world," writes Butler, "Paul was the special instrument chosen by God to lead the way in world missions." Butler examines one of the most important figures in the Bible, Paul, in the following chapters:
- Persecutor of Believers
- Power of God
- Preparations for Service
- Placement in Service
- Première of Missions
- Preaching in Pisidia
- Polarization in Iconium
- Problems in Lystra
- Proceeding to Completion
- Polemics about Legalism
- Parting from Barnabas
- Plan of God
- Prisoners in Philippi
- Propagating in Thessalonica
- Prudence in Berea
- Paganism in Athens
- Parish of Corinth
- Proclaiming in Ephesus
- Pandemonium in Ephesus
- Pursuing the Plan
- Pausing to Instruct
- Persisting about Jerusalem
- Purification in Jerusalem
- Plea before Troublemakers
- Provoking the Sanhedrin
- Protection from Conspiracy
- Performance before Felix
- Protesting before Festus
- Profession before Agrippa
- Peril at Sea
- Prominence in Melita
- Passing to Rome
Product Details
- Title: Paul: The Missionary Apostle
- Author: John G. Butler
- Series: Bible Biography Series
- Publisher: LBC Publications
- Publication Date: 1995
- Pages: 806
About John G. Butler
John G. Butler, originally from Iowa, has been a Baptist minister for over fifty years and a pastor for over thirty-five years with pastorates in Clinton, Iowa; Williamsburg, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Chicago, Illinois. Having attended Tennessee Temple University and graduated from Cedarville University, he also authored the 27-volume Bible Biography Series, a 10-volume Study of the Savior series about Jesus Christ, and the 4-volume Butler's Daily Bible Reading set, a unique daily devotional focusing on expository Bible study. He is also a veteran of the United States Navy.
Top Highlights
“Paul’s missionary work made him very prominent in the Bible. In fact, outside of Jesus Christ, no person is more prominent in the New Testament than the Apostle Paul. Prominence was a natural characteristic of Paul.” (Page 11)
“You can be very religious and yet be as lost as the most non-religious person in the world if your religion leaves out Jesus Christ as the only Redeemer of mankind. In judging any religion, the first test is to see what it does with Jesus Christ.” (Page 20)
“Acts gives that narrative; in fact, it gives more narrative of Paul’s life than of anyone else’s life. Of the twenty-eight chapters in Acts, seventeen of them are a chronicle of Paul’s life.” (Page 11)
“There is nothing in the initial appearances of Paul in Scripture which would suggest in the slightest that he was going to be the greatest ambassador of Jesus Christ the church has ever had.” (Page 13)
“We will discover in examining his race, his region, his raising, and his religion that he was of noble extract, of excellent upbringing, well educated, and extremely religious and God-fearing—things which we normally do not associate with a rampaging, blood-shedding, hate-filled person.” (Page 14)
- Title: Paul: The Missionary Apostle
- Author: John G. Butler
- Series: Bible Biography Series
- Volume: Number Eleven
- Publisher: LBC Publications
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Apostles › Biography
- ISBNs: 9781889773117, 1889773115
- Resource ID: LLS:BBS11PAUL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:36:03Z