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- The Apostle Paul encountered Jesus on his way to Damascus in one of the most radical of ways, which led to his conversion and stepping into his call to follow Christ and preach the Gospel. This powerful conversion led Paul to give his life to the mission of building up the church and furthering the kingdom of God.
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Sep 1, 2018 · Paul the apostle underscored the exclusive supremacy of God’s divine-human Son in all matters of salvation (1 Corinthians 3:11; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:18-22, 27, 28). At the core of our faith and practice, Paul would say Christians follow Christ alone (Galatians 2:20).
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McGee described the city of Corinth as a place of debauchery. A term popular in the Roman Empire at the time — “corinthianize” — referred to someone who “went to the very limit in sin.” (p.viii). The Corinthian church, founded by Paul during his second missionary journey, felt weak after he had left. They were new Christians under heavy pressure fr...
The Corinthian church was not fixing its eyes on Christ. As Andy Naselli asserted, “it isn’t surprising that the early Corinthian church continued to share some of Corinth’s worldly values regarding leaders and sex and other issues.” They struggled with how to live together as Jews and Gentiles; how to dress appropriately and why; how to behave lik...
Paul was not asking the church to do anything he was unwilling to also do. He understood the challenges of changing direction. As he tells the church at Philippi, he was once the Jew’s Jew, a Pharisee, and a Hebrew. He was among a rare group of men with this particular pedigree. The Lord had caused him to make a 180-degree turn, cease persecuting C...
Paul was not good in the way Christ was good — Jesus, as a man, was perfect. He never sinned. Paul was still a sinner, but he followed Jesus. He obeyed the calling which God placed upon his life to go out and make disciples. His influence can be seen today since so much of what he wrote contributes to our understanding of the Christian life. Certai...
Yet, even as we look to Paul as an example of our faith walk, he was always copying Christ himself. Offering his very life as a sacrifice in order to spread the good news came from his deep desire to be like Jesus. He sought to live and to love like his Savior. We must never worship Paul or worship good pastors or even good Christians in our lives....
Jan 11, 2024 · When Paul said, “Imitate me as I imitate Christ,” he was instructing us as believers to carefully examine our Savior’s life and the lives of His faithful servants. He gave a similar command earlier in 1 Corinthians 4:16: “Therefore I urge you to imitate me.”
In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul told the Christians in Corinth, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ” (NIV). So, as people who want to be better disciples of Jesus, let’s look at the example Paul sets for us as he made it his goal to follow Christ.
Oct 6, 2023 · From Paul’s writings and the book of Acts, readers learn about who he was before his conversion. It is precisely who Paul was – a man who made it a goal to stop the church because he believed that Jesus was a liar – that made his testimony as a follower of Jesus so influential.
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Jan 4, 2022 · The apostle Paul, who called himself a “bondservant to Christ,” writes of the struggle with his sin nature in Romans 7:14-25. In verse 15 he says, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do” (Romans 7:15).
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Paul, the apostle, is urging the Corinthians to follow his example, not out of arrogance, but because he strives to live a life that reflects Christ's teachings. Historically, discipleship in the Jewish tradition involved closely following a rabbi, learning not just from their words but from their way of life.
