PAUL MISSIONARY'S JOURNEY Who is a missionary? A missionary is someone who is sent on a mission especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign land either homeland or foreign land. Journey simply means the act of traveling from one place to another. From the above definition, the missionary journey could then be defined as a religious journey embarked upon purposely because of preaching the gospel to the gentile. (Matt.28:19-20). Who is Paul? In Chapter 9 of Acts, we come into close contact with Paul. Hebrew name was Saul while he was called in Greek Paul. He was a Jew, Greek and Roman. He was a persecutor of the gospel, going about killing Apostles. He gave approval to the martyr of Stephen. God appeared to him on his way to Damascus in a pathetic way and called him to mission work. Paul’s Background: He was born near the beginning of the first century in the city of Tarsus in the province of Cilicia, which is now a part of Turkey. Tarsus was a
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