1. from Pharisee to Evangelist, from Tarsus to Rome
Paul’s Journey
from Pharisee to Evangelist, from Tarsus to Rome

2. Saul as a young Pharisee

3. His Credentials (Ph 3:5-7)
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more....
Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ... I regard all as loss, for the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

4. Jerusalem studies
.Ac 22:3

5. Letters from the High Priest
.Ac 9:1

6. Paul’s own account Ac 22:4-6
I persecuted this Way up to death "While I was on my ..a great light shone about me…”

7. .. On the way to Damascus.

9. A chosen Instrument…

10. What he left behind..
Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ…

11. His motivation

12. Tent-maker by Trade Ac 18:3

13. Paul’s story, also shaped by Luke’s narrative framework

14. Barnabas as Mentor
Barnabas brought him to the apostles, and described for them how on the road he had seen the Lord, …and how in Damascus..
Ac 9:27f

15. Acts 11:25

16. First years of Ministry (Ac 11-14)

17. Together with Barnabas

18. Peter’s support

19. Vital agreement reached

20. Later, Peter met Paul in Antioch

21. Hot Argument (Gal 2:11)

22. Outcome of the Antioch Quarell
Short-term: Paul lost status in Antioch; Barnabas sided with Peter; Paul regarded as trouble-maker
Long-term: Paul’s principle (Equality for Gentile Xtians) was vindicated, as vital for the Church’s future

23. Luke’s serene Paul – Why?

25. Paul’s first converts in Europe

26. Philippians: a delightful epistle “Gaudete”

27. Their call: to imitate Christ

28. Via Thessalonica & Athens to Corinth (Ac 17-18)

29. Many Corinthians turned to Christ

30. Next stop: Ephesus

31. Where he met fierce opposition AA 19:23ff

32. Several epistles from Ephesus

33. A Superb vocational text

34. When later he arrived in Rome..

35. First welcomed, and later revered, (“twin pillars”)