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Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Five

April 13, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens VIII. What Value Has Paul’s Strategy For Us Today? I am convinced that Paul’s strategy for producing missionary lay movements, for exponential growth, holds the solution for world evangelization for the 21st century! I think we cannot fulfill our mandate without Paul. So what can w … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Four

April 12, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens How Well Did Paul’s Strategy Work? Many of his lay evangelists were from unsavory, uneducated, pagan backgrounds. Most were slaves. None had anthropological or missiological training. It cost Paul dearly to bring them the gospel, and they risked their lives without pay to take it t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Three

April 11, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

 by Ruth Siemens What Was Paul’s Strategy and How Effective Was It? It would take a longer paper to pull all this together, but I will just suggest a few points in Paul’s strategy. This “apostle to the Gentiles” had received a daunting commission from the risen Christ. He set out to evangelize the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, strategy, tentmaking

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