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Article: Paul's Understanding of the Church's Mission: Did the Apostle Paul Expect Early Christian Communities to Evangelize?
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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- June 1, 2007
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Paul's Understanding of the Church's Mission: Did the Apostle Paul Expect Early Christian Communities to Evangelize? By Robert L. Plummer. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006, xviii + 190 pp., £19.99 paper.
Did the apostle Paul expect the early Christian communities to evangelize? This is the subtitle of the book and also the central question that Plummer seeks to answer. Framed in another way, did Paul command the churches that he addresses in his epistles to imitate him in centrifugal missionary outreach? His answer, supported by lexical, exegetical, and logical argumentation, is a resounding affirmative. To ...