Jensens survey of the old testament adam 434
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Maps and charted summary-worksheets of
Paul’s three missionary journeys are
included in the accompanying pages to help
your survey of these important chapters of
Acts.
Notes on the missionary journeys
1. World evangelization was the plan that
Jesus shared with His apostles (1:8). At 13:1
it was the time to execute such a plan. We
observe from the text that it was not Saul or
the church, but the Holy Spirit who took the
initiative of this new venture (13:2). It was
God’s plan, and it was God’s work. The
missionaries were to be His instruments in
the work (cf. 14:26-27).
2. It was during Paul’s missionary
journeys that the apostle was inspired to
write some of the New Testament epistles,
and it is obvious from them that the
interpretations and implications of the ABC’s
of the gospel message were becoming
deeper and more advanced by revelation
from God.
3. The end of Paul’s second journey and
the beginning of his third are so brie y and
casually recorded by Luke that the reader of
Acts is hardly aware that a new missionary
crusade has begun. The second journey
closes at 18:22, and in the very next
verse,18 although a period of time is spent
at Antioch, Paul is o to the work again,
moving about Galatia and Phrygia.
GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE ON
MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
4. Observe that Paul bypassed western
Asia Minor on his second journey and did
most of his work in Macedonia and Greece.
So it was very natural for his third tour that
he should be led to spend most of his time
(three years) in western Asia Minor (with
Ephesus at the hub).
